Hebrews 10:35

Sitting in the waiting room at my Orthodontist's office, I was reading a local magazine, about high school sports. They were interviewing a baseball player from Paloma Valley High School or Linfield Christian School, I can't remember, and they asked him what his favorite bible verse was. He stated "Hebrews 10:35". My curiosity got the best of me and I looked it up when I got home.

"So do not throw away your confidence, it will be richly rewarded."

What a powerful verse. Just one sentence, with pounds of wisdom.

Confidence is something that I've always accounted myself for. It makes me, me. Confidence is something that I've always looked for in a person, it shows that you've accepted the person that God has made you and are willing to exert that positive energy onto others. Start with positive thinking, then move on to positive actions, which turns into positive habits and ends with positive results. Being confident is what makes you unique, it's not trying to do something that no one has ever done before or being different from the person behind you. Confidence is beauty.
Don't be fooled. There's a fine line between confidence and conceit.

con⋅fi⋅dence -noun; 1.full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing 2. belief in oneself and one's powers or abilities; self-confidence; self-reliance; assurance

con⋅ceit -noun; 1. an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc. 2. something that is conceived in the mind; a thought; idea
Just looking at the denotations of both words you notice a vast difference. 

Don't be fooled.