Empowering Confidence: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Courage is the starting point of everything good. To love another is to automatically feed the fire of courage. We cannot be humiliated when we are fighting for someone or something we love. We will not give up when we are fighting for loved ones. As we evolve, our loved ones extend out from our family to include all of humanity. Courage and confidence will grow over the years with practice and self-awareness. We are never alone. God will help us. Such is the courage which gains respect from others. More importantly, we gain respect for ourselves."

- Donna Goddard

"People love to say, “You gotta fake it till you make it.” But this implies that the fake you is someone better than who you inherently are, and this is simply not the truth. Let me say this loud and clear: the person you imagine yourself to be in the very best and most powerful moments of your life, is the authentic you. And in truth, I imagine you’re probably much more amazing even than that."

- Richie Norton

"Not everyone will have the capacity to support your growth."

- Michele Gustafson

"And then I thought and fell in love with myself, no despair, no heartbreaks."

- Vikrant Bhingardive

"Don’t be afraid of struggles, because as you go on, it enhances your confidence."

- Anath Lee Wales

"If you are the best, then act as you like, no matter what the world thinks of you."

- Vikrant Bhingardive

"You yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

- Buddha

"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

"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

"Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have."

- Brian Tracy

"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

"Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out."

- Alan Cohen

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."

- J.M. Barrie

"I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done."

- Robert Downey Jr.

"If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything."

- Katy Perry

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?"

- Goldie Hawn

"Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."

- Rumi

"Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else."

- Nathaniel Branden

"Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are."

- Chinese proverb

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"You can't hate yourself happy. You can't criticize yourself thin. You can't shame yourself worthy. Real change begins with self-love and self-care."

- Jessica Ortner

"Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong."

- Peter T. McIntyre

"Loving yourself isn't vanity. It's sanity."

- Katrina Mayer

"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."

- Lillian Hellman

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving yourself and see what happens."

- Louise Hay

"With confidence, you have won before you have started."

- Marcus Garvey

"You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth."

- William W. Purkey

"Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them."

- T. Harv Eker

"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it."

- Dr. Robert Anthony

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

- Sir Edmund Hillary

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy."

- Queen Latifah

"You are being prepared for a success you can’t yet see."

- Michele Gustafson

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality."

- Shannon L. Alder

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

- e e cummings

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie?"

- Marilyn Monroe

"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

"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you."

- Cynthia Kersey

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!"

- Jesse Jackson

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."

- J. M. Barrie

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life."

- Golda Meir

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."

- Cicero

"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 must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"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

"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy."

- Brian Tracy

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

- Benjamin Spock

"If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."

- Rosalynn Carter

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- Christopher Robin

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."

- Arthur Ashe

"To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be."

- Avril Lavigne

"A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond."

- Solange Nicole

"She remembered who she was and the game changed."

- Lalah Delia

"Self-confidence is contagious."

- Stephen Richards

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is tough, but so are you."

- Carmi Grau

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence."

- Blake Lively

"Confidence is key - once you have that, you are unstoppable."

- Timothy Weah

"When I take good care of myself, it lifts my spirits, boosts my confidence, and makes me feel strong."

- Alyssa Edwards

"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."

- Paul Tillich

"You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you."

- William Jennings Bryan

"A confident woman may not be rich, but deep within, she is enriched with a better understanding of who she is."

- Gift Gugu Mona

"Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Every challenge you overcome gets you closer to your inner inexhaustible power."

- Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, PhD, MBA

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength."

- Criss Jami

"Never dull your shine for somebody else."

- Tyra Banks

"The only power that exists is inside ourselves."

- Anne Rice

"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend."

- Lao Tzu

"Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you."

- Rob Liano

"Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you."

- Ray A. Davis

"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

"Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction."

- Germany Kent

"You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence."

- Julien Smith

"Accept who you are; and revel in it."

- Mitch Albom

"You have no control over other people’s taste, so focus on staying true to your own."

- Tim Gunn

"The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off."

- Robert Hand

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

- Virginia Woolf

"Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others."

"The secret to self-confidence isn't to stop caring what people think; it's to start caring about what you think. It's to make your opinion of you more important than anyone else's."

"Be a Girl with a mind, a Woman with attitude, and a Lady with class."