A sense of self-confidence and a certain persistence in pursuing objectives and goals.

Knowing how to sail instils a deep and lasting sense of self-confidence.

Belief in one's abilities to perform an activity comes through successful experience and may add to, or consolidate, a general sense of self-confidence.

His works have often been criticized for egotism, but his admirers counter that they carry more a sense of self-confidence than ego.

A renewed sense of self-confidence soon re-energised the party.