Words similar to self-confidence

Example sentences for: self-confidence

How can you use “self-confidence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

(There is also a brash self-confidence to Pooh: He composes to himself that would have done Whitman proud.)
The relationships that are formed provide strong foundations from which healthy values and strong self-confidence can grow, helping youth become strong, independent adults of tomorrow.
On behalf of the Harvard Square respondents, it must be said that ignorance was masked by a bravura self-confidence.
De Gaulle, with his canny sense of history, took an important step toward rebuilding national self-confidence by insisting that French armed forces fight side by side with the Americans and British for the liberation of the country, but, above all, that the French army be the first to enter Paris itself.
Perhaps I am missing something, but, in the event, it is difficult to understand how the expression take (someone) down a peg , which means demean (someone); reduce (someone) in estimation, esp. his own; puncture the self-confidence or arrogance of (someone), unless it has changed somewhat over the years, could be connected with peg tankards.