LifeLessonsForAlldotcom: What do you see as the difference between 'having confidence' and 'being conceited' or 'being arrogant'?

"To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing."
- Fred Durst

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
- Benjamin Franklin

"There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."
- Johnny Unitas

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper

"Here is the egotist's code: everything for himself, nothing for others."
- Joseph Sanial-Dubay

EGOTIST, n. A selfish, self-centered person.
- TheFreeDictionary.com
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/egotist

"An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation."
- Jean de la Bruyere

"The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life and Society and Solitude