53 Confidence Quotes That Will Help You to Believe In Yourself
In this post I’d like to share the best confidence quotes I’ve found.
Because one of the most common questions I get via email is:
How can I be more confident in my daily life?
Well, here’s 53 quotes on that. Timeless, time-tested and thought-provoking self-confidence advice from the past few thousands of years.
I hope you’ll find these quotes as motivating and practically helpful as I did.
53 Confidence Quotes That Will Help You to Live Your Best Life
“Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”
Tina Fey
“Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
Dale Carnegie
“Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that. That’s nonsense. Make up your mind, you’ll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.”
Douglas Bader
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”
Helen Keller
“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.”
Venus Williams
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
Sir Edmund Hillary
“Confidence isn’t optimism or pessimism, and it’s not a character attribute. It’s the expectation of a positive outcome.”
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”
Arthur Ashe
“You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.”
Ken Kesey
“Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.”
Jack Nicklaus
“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
Louise L. Hay
“Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.”
David Storey
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”
Peter T. Mcintyre
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.”
Henry Ford
“Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.”
Richard Bach
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
James Baldwin
“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
Virgil Thomson
“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.”
Dalai Lama
“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
Brigham Young
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Brian Tracy
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
Golda Meir
“Self-confidence is the memory of success.”
David Storey
“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”
T. Harv Eker
“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”
Deborah Day
“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”
Unknown
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
Mark Victor Hansen
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“With the realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.”
Dalai Lama
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
Lao-Tzu
“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.”
Anais Nin
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
Marie Curie
“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
Maya Angelou
“Confidence is when you believe in yourself and your abilities, arrogance is when you think you are better than others and act accordingly.”
Stewart Stafford
“Confidence is courage at ease.”
Daniel Maher
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“For me, it’s always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it’s only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.”
Aaron Rodgers
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
Benjamin Spock
“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.”
Roderick Thorp
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”
Wayne Dyer
“When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.”
Joe Namath
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.”
Thomas A. Bennett
“I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.”
Allen H. Neuharth
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
Lucille Ball
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
Mark Twain
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
Bob Moawad
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
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