75 Powerful Confidence Quotes to Uplift & Motivate You (Self-Belief) Last updated on May 20, 2024
Top 15 Confidence Quotes to Boost Your Self-Esteem Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. ― Helen Keller Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ― Bertrand Russell When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it’s game over for everyone else. ― Jason Day Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it. ― Bruce Lee The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. ― Ayn Rand
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. ― Edward Everett Hale All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ― Mark Twain As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success. ― Tamara Taylor 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 Put all excuses aside and remember this – you are capable. ― Zig Ziglar
It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures. ― Oprah Winfrey Confidence is everything. Confidence is what makes that simple white tee and jeans look good. ― Ciara Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. ― Roy T. Bennett Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. ― Robert Greene If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ― Henry David Thoreau 47 Uplifting Confidence Quotes That Will Inspire You to Believe in Yourself Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. ― Ayn Rand Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. ― Bernard M. Baruch
When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them. ― Karen E. Quinones Miller 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 When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't. ― Jodi Picoult Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ― Helen Keller You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. ― Richard P. Feynman One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself. ― Shannon L. Alder No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ― Eleanor Roosevelt 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 With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world. ― Dalai Lama To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. ― Oscar Wilde
Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. ― Robert Staubach Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. ― Peter T. Mcintyre 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 One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. ― Arthur Ashe If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t you will see obstacles. ― Wayne Dyer Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ― Lucille Ball The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. ― James Allen To anyone that ever told you you’re no good… they’re no better. ― Hayley Williams You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. ― Louise L. Hay Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health. ― Dalai Lama
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 Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do. ― Brené Brown Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. ― David Storey Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. ― Oprah Winfrey Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart. ― Steve Jobs What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. ― Thomas Jefferson It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. ― Giacomo Casanova You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. ― Rosalynn Carter Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try. ― Zig Ziglar
The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes. ― Michael Steinhardt When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. ― Joe Namath I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you’re doing. ― Phil Jackson The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. ― Maya Angelou Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. ― Michael Jordan You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ― Michael Jordan The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self-confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work. ― Arnold Schwarzenegger Confidence is not ‘they will like me’. Confidence is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t’. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level. ― Eckhart Tolle Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ― E.E. Cummings
If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self. ― Wayne Dyer To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold that desire with singleness of purpose. ― Abraham Lincoln 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 Always remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. 13 Short Quotes About Confidence Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. ― Mahatma Gandhi You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. ― Abraham Lincoln There’s no job too immense, when you got confidence. ― Elvis Presley I am who I am. Not who you think I am. Not who you want me to be. I am me. I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. ― Muhammad Ali Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. ― Brené Brown Confidence comes from discipline and training. ― Robert Kiyosaki Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ― Anaïs Nin As is our confidence, so is our capacity. ― William Hazlitt Believe you can and you're halfway there. ― Theodore Roosevelt Never dull your shine for somebody else. ― Tyra Banks Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself! ― Mark A. Cooper Accept who you are; and revel in it. ― Mitch Albom