confidence

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems).  In the best of circumstances, the relationship is clear enough so that the mathematician can submit his or her reasoning to an informal checklist, passing from step to step with the easy confidence the steps are small enough so that he cannot be embarrassed nor she tripped up.

The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from even the one thing they think is most certainly true, i.e. the confidence that they are truly Christians.

Danger breeds best on too much on confidence.

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

All the best things I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and (b) not having done it before, ever.

"Find out what you are, then do it on purpose"

It takes Strength, Courage and Confidence in which every experience you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself…I’ve lived through this Horror, I can take the next thing that comes along.
     You must do the thing you think you cannot do!

"Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice."

Go forward with confidence. The universe will meet you half way (but never all the way).