self-assurance

This is a promising sign in itself: the discipline and self-assurance to quit while ahead is sadly rare in any creative field.

A transplanted New Yorker, Wasserman Schultz learned early on the value of hard work and never lacked self-assurance.

He had this eerie feline self-assurance, and it was hypnotic.

Her beauty seems to telegraph an inner radiance of well-honed intelligence and gentle self-assurance.

He had felt in the lawyer's presence the contact of a nature which possessed more self-assertion and self-assurance than his own.

This last rumor was not calculated to increase his appetite, or restore his self-complacency and self-assurance.

Masirewa amused me more each day by his cheek and self-assurance.

Petzholdt's self-assurance carries him to the length of condemning books that he has not seen.

But for all his efforts at self assurance, when he went home to Aunt Sarah he was not in the most easy frame of mind.