Self-Confidence
- Belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of oneself.
Self-confidence is a blend of self-acceptance, trust, and optimism; acceptance of and positive regard for one’s temperament and abilities coupled with trust that one will not sabotage one’s own efforts, topped off with a healthy dose of benefit of the doubt. Self-confidence is not arrogance. Arrogance says, “I am somehow superior to others, and therefore others should work toward my success.” Self-confidence says, “I am as good as others, and therefore am able to carry out my own success.” Following are excellent illustrations of people discovering what success means to them and pursuing it with abandon, or risking all by faltering…
Examples of Self-Confidence in Film
- American Beauty
- Baby Boom
- Billy Elliot
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Facing the Giants
- Flawless (1999)
- Friends with Money
- G.I. Jane
- Girl, Interrupted
- Harold and Maude
- Heart Like a Wheel
- Hope Floats
- LA Confidential
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Mighty Aphrodite
- Murderball
- Normal
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
- Places in the Heart
- Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
- Private Benjamin
- Real Women Have Curves
- Rounders
- Rudy
- Searching for Debra Winger
- Sideways
- Sixteen Candles
- Stanley & Iris
- Sunshine Cleaning
- The Cider House Rules
- The Color Purple
- The Cooler
- The Edge
- The Firm
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
- The Matrix
- Thirteen Days
- Whale Rider
- Without Limits
- Working Girl
“confidence.” Dictionary.com Unabridged. 18 Dec. 2011. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/confidence>.
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