confident vs promising

confident

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

  • Very sure of something; positive. 

promising

adj
  • Encouraging and inspiring confidence. 

  • Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion. 

  • a promising young apprentice 

noun
  • The act of making a promise. 

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