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What is confidence to you?

I've been thinking a lot about this recently as my friends and I have been talking a bit about it. I wondered what the 'wider public' thought so I thought I'd ask; what is confidence to you? I'm really interested in your thoughts, so discuss away!

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Reply 1

Kyle98

The ability to comfortably develop and hold conversation and small talk with people, and making them laugh, you?

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Reply 2

Savino

Confidence is the ability to fully utilise your potential to succeed in situations in life, putting aside any fears, doubts or personal obstacles that you may have.

Just my opinion.

Reply 3

ladanldn

Accepting yourself for who you are and accepting the situation and the life you are in. Once you accept this you will easily gain confidence, but one may disagree because even though you accept yourself, you may not entirely be happy with yourself and that is pretty much a lack of confidence. I guess confidence is actually being happy with who you are and your situation too. But I lack that tbh

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Reply 4

capitalismstinks

Its the opposite of loud and showing off.

Reply 5

moment of truth

Something I don't have, unfortunately.

Reply 6

Kanairee

The ability to accept and be comfortable with yourself not just individually but in the presence of other people too. I think confidence is mainly just about self-esteem and your own personal image of yourself.

Reply 7

Man.bear.pig

Confidence is being content with who you are and it normally means you're not fully aware of how you come off to others.
You can have confidence and low self worth though. Like confidence is just beneficial for the actions; self worth is regardless how you act, you know you deserve respect.

Reply 8

JasAsh

Original post by Man.bear.pig

I agree with you, I know some who come off as very confident but I know for a fact have low self worth. I guess being happy is having that balance of confidence and self worth, without either becoming too extreme either way, you know?

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Reply 9

Amir52

anything that you do, which does not include 'if' in it, that's what confidence means to me. :smile:

Reply 10

Smonnie

Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as...

Reply 11

Mackay

Original post by Smonnie

Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as...

Reply 12

zippity.doodah

confidence is a form of being socially-invinsible, to me
for example, if they have some kind of flaw and they're open about it, almost as if it's a strength, then that's confidence
and if they are talkative and aren't scared of potentially sounding bad, that's confidence
and if they are happy, then they're probably confident