Gaining Confidence

Famous quotes containing the words gaining and/or confidence:

“That all things change, one nation gaining strength
While others perish.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.”
—Janet Malcolm (b. 1934)