His childhood was anything but idyllic and for much of his later life he suffered from under-confidence and depression.
The periodic flare up of the question of how many Team GB medal winners benefited from private schooling suggests an under-confidence about whether this is really a meritocracy.
They badly need to undertake the confidence-building measures under discussion within the alliance.
"Our finances are now well under control - allowing us to move forward with confidence, " read a statement.
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Using the natural attraction of sports and friendship, the Suns provide under-served youth the opportunities to gain the confidence that can only be obtained from challenging themselves both physically and mentally.
When there is general confidence in the uninter-rupted goings on of economic life, confidence in the legal framework under which economic life operates and in the essential integrity and fairness of governments, men with capital prefer to have their capital employed.
Responding to last year's under-recruitment and in a bid to give universities more confidence in offering places, the Hefce funding council is allowing universities a wider margin for over-recruiting, before they face financial penalties.
What to say about a president whose remarkable ability to function under self-imposed pressure seems to enhance his ability to inspire confidence in the public.
This unusual background gives me complete confidence that the technology-enabled transformation currently under way WILL radically improve access to high quality education across the globe.
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"Whether the inappropriate criterion was shorthand for all potential political cases or not, developing and using criteria that focuses on organization names and policy positions instead of the activities permitted under the Treasury regulations does not promote public confidence that tax-exempt laws are being adhered to impartially, " the report said.
Dhoni admitted the result puts his side under pressure to qualify for the semi-finals, but said he has confidence they will still go through.
Many observers and commentators in Turkey call the hostage release an important confidence-building step in a nascent peace process now under way between the Turkish government and rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, a Kurdish separatist group.
Celtic were toying with the visitors, whose confidence had utterly evaporated, leaving a question mark over the future of under-pressure Aberdeen manager Mark McGhee.
Dalglish's job appears to be safe in the senior management shake-up, though he'll be under increased pressure to justify the board's confidence in the semifinal at Wembley.
Mr Obama expressed confidence in his Attorney General, Eric Holder, who has come under fire for the phone-records seizure.
In 1997, Hopfan founded Free Arts NYC to provide under-served children and families with a unique combination of educational arts and mentoring programs to foster the self-confidence and resiliency.
The year 2009 will indeed, here and across the world, be a chance to recognise this form of communication as an essential liberator, a window on the world for children reading their books (under their bedcovers, as I did), or adults being able to go about their business with confidence - and with the certainty that very few other people will be able to read their secrets.
In December of that year, the National Intelligence Council - then under the leadership of another product of the State Department, Thomas Fingar - produced an NIE that declared "with high confidence" that the Iranian mullahs had halted their nuclear weapons program in 2003.
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