My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person like my mom but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us because three or four of us were really running the business the day to day business.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

When we have done our best we can as a united people take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us death is not the end.

When you really believe in God it gives you a courage a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character the courage and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes because when you sit down with your enemy you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage his character his self respect or his self-confidence. He is still a King.