confident vs self-sustaining

confident

adj
  • Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself. 

  • Very sure of something; positive. 

self-sustaining

adj
  • Able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient. 

  • Able to sustain itself without the need for additional fuel. 

  • Opposing or rejecting exterior influence; independent. 

How often have the words confident and self-sustaining occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )