No Matter How You Say It: Confidence
In Other Languages
Spanish – confianza
French – confiance
German – vertrauen
Italian – fiducia
Swedish – förtroende
Euskara – konfiantza
Estonian – enesekindlus
Word Origin
late Middle English: from Latin confidentia, from confidere ‘have full trust’
Can you see how Confidence is having full trust in yourself?
Sign Language
Can you see the firmness in the confident sign and the defeat in the doubt sign?
Confidence Idioms
- A breeze
- A piece of cake
- Be a bull in a china shop
- Be all thumbs
- Believe in yourself
- Bouncing back
- Comfort zone
- Fake it till you make it
- Full of beans
- Get up the nerve to do it
- Get your head in the game
- Have a backbone
- Have a big ego
- Have a chip on your shoulder
- Have a lion’s heart
- Have a spring in your step
- I know I can do it
- I’m feeling good about myself
- I’m in my element
- I’m not afraid to fail
- I’m up for the challenge
- In my element
- In my wheelhouse
- In seventh heaven
- On top of the world
- Over the moon
- Piece of cake
- Positive self-talk
- Radiate confidence
- Shot in the arm
- Vote of confidence
- Walking on air