Self-confidence Quotes

"Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it."

- Tina Fey

"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat."

- Sean Beaudoin

"I’m going to keep showing up as my best self and stay focused on my own path. That’s how I know I’ll win."

- @bossbabe

"Make no comparisons. Keep your head down and do your own thing."

- Torrie Asai

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

- George Washington

"Always be yourself–express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

- Bruce Lee

"Humor comes from self-confidence."

- Rita Mae Brown

"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

"Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … do your thing, and don’t care if they like it."

- Tina Fey

"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

"Low self-confidence isn’t a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered–just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better."

- Barrie Davenport

"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

"It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures."

- Oprah Winfrey

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours."

- Richard Bach

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

- Dale Carnegie

"Low self-confidence isn't a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered--just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better."

- Barrie Davenport

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"As is our confidence, so is our capacity."

- William Hazlitt

"Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don’t think you can, you won’t."

- Jerry West

"You have to have confidence in your ability and then be tough enough to follow through."

- Rosalynn Carter

"Successful people often exude confidence--it’s obvious that they believe in themselves and what they’re doing. It isn’t their success that makes them confident, however. The confidence was there first."

- Travis Bradberry

"Have confidence that if you’ve done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too."

- David Storey

"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things."

- Joe Namath

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

- Samuel Johnson

"Stop thinking you’re doing it all wrong. Your path doesn’t look like anybody else’s because it can’t, it shouldn’t, and it won’t."

- Eleanor Brownn

"When you have confidence, you can do anything."

- Sloane Stephens

"When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen."