Confidence

Confidence According to The Free Dictionary by Farlex, confidence has several meaning depending on the context it is used in. One of the meanings of the word confidence is the belief or the conviction that the results will be favorable. The word confidence can also be used to mean the belief in the effectiveness of a person’s abilities or in a person’s favorable acceptance by others. The word originates from the 15 th Century and it was derived from two Latin words: Confidentia and Confidentem. These words were, at that time, used to mean “Firmly trusting and bold.” The word could also have originated directly from the word confidence used by the Middle French. The word was use to also mean having complete trust or reliance on someone…

Confidence in a Game of Failure Baseball is just like life in so many ways, the certain failure that must be faced with composure and grace in order to be successful in the future; the lessons learned throughout years of commitment and hard work. Baseball is more lifelike than any other sport because of these things, but also because of repetition. Day after day, night after night, slaving after your craft to be deemed great, and only succeed three out of ten times. This is why people are so…

Confidence: A Different Tool to Break Through the Glass Ceiling? Women’s rights has almost always been a theme in the history of our society for the past few centuries, but today it is important in the professional sense. As a society we have been slowly but steadily making progress in gender equality in a variety of forms, but as one of the most progressive countries in the world, why are only 4% of the Fortune 500 CEOs women? In “The Confidence Gap”, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman examine the…

A quality people tend to lack is confidence. They may be nervous or scared to be themselves. Society these days tends to make a person become someone they are not like. This is why people tend to have problems with confidence, because their self-esteem is lowered. Everyone has things they are not proud of and would like to change. But by changing themselves they wont be their true self. This essay will work to define confidence as someone who is proud of who they are and will not allow society…

Self-Confidence Self-confidence lies within each of us as individuals and allows us to believe we are capable of doing anything as long as we believe in ourselves. It can be seen in several different areas of life. Self-confidence occurs when winning depends on one person, when someone is determined to achieve a life goal, or when you are facing a difficult situation. Self-confidence is also a personality trait which can help you feel successful in life and confident in what you are doing. The…

Confidence is the "feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something"(dictionary.com). Self confidence, would be the belief that one can rely on themselves and their own abilities. Self confidence is widely acceptable and many people agree that it is a great trait to have, but to many having bountiful self confidence can lead to arrogance. Beowulf is the longest surviving Anglo-Saxon poem; The setting of the epic poem is in 5th century Scandinavia. Hrothgar, whose successful rule is…

Confidence Confidence is defined in the way of trust, self-assurance, and a state of feeling certain about the truth of something. I have always taken confidence as the way you feel about yourself so that does go along with self-assurance. I have always had low confidence but I know that I am not the only teenage girl that suffers from it in today’s society. The way we approach someone’s self-confidence is different in today’s society and there are so many men and woman that have long term…

Self-confidence is not a tool that people are born with. It takes years of practice or even a life time of practice to obtain self-confidence, but when you can achieve having self-confidence you tend not to lose it as it will benefit many aspects of your life. According to dictionary.com self-confidence is “realistic confidence in one’s own judgement, ability and power.” As a hockey player here at USU self-confidence can make or break your game, if you don’t feel like a winner you will not play…

I believe in confidence Confidence is believing in yourself and knowing that you can achieve whatever you want to do. Must of the time people are not confident in what they can do and that usually prevents them from doing it. Confidence sometimes lets us do things that we never thought that we could achieve. As an example, Once me and my soccer team went on a tournament to Indiana. We came into the tournament with being a lower rank in the state. The teams we were playing were better than us at…

person with low confidence? They are to be expected to not take risks or take part in dangerous activities. This can be seen in many characters in several works of literary art. For example, In The Pigman by Paul Zindel, we see Loraine, one of the protagonists, start off as a character with a low self-esteem and not much self-confidence either. However, Lorraine’s experiences with John, Mr. Pignati, and her mother shape her into a more confident character. As I started reading this novel, I came…