100+ Inspirational Quotes to Boost Your Confidence and Empower Your Life

"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

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

- E. E. Cummings

"It doesn’t matter if thousands of people believe in you unless you believe in yourself."

- Maddy Malhotra

"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.

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

- Marcus Garvey

"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

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

- Samuel Johnson

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something ... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication."

- Roger Staubach

"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

"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

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

- Christopher Robin

"Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way."

- Sheri L. Dew

"It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself."

- Richard Monckton Milnes

"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

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?"

- Marianne Williamson

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

- Blake Lively

"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

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Peter T. McIntyre

"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

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

- Sloane Stephens

"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

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

- Anna Freud

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

- Benjamin Spock

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

- Arthur Ashe

"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

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

- Bruce Lee

"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."

- Cicero

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

- Brian Tracy

"People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence."

- Jack Canfield

"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

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution."

- David J. Schwartz

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

"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

"Believe in yourself, and you’re halfway there."

- Callie Gullickson

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Helen Keller

"Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude."

- Michelle Obama

"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

"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

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas Alva Edison

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

- Anna Freud

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."

- Arthur Ashe

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do, and at some point, you will."

- Venus Williams

"Self-confidence is contagious."

- Stephen Richards

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

- Edmund Hillary

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

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

- Tina Fey

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance."

- Bruce Barton

"You gotta have confidence in yourself first before anybody else will. I've always had that."

- Jayson Tatum

"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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"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

"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

- Marcus Garvey

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

- Robert Anthony

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Joe Namath

"A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I'm doing. It's not always winning. People, I think, mistake that it's just winning. Sometimes it could be, but for me, it's hitting the best sets I can, gaining confidence, and having a good time and having fun."

- Simone Biles

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

- George Washington

"Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself."

- Khalid

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

- Timothy Weah

"Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself."

- Kiesza

"You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous."

- Gabby Douglas

"Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication."

- Roger Staubach

"Find the confidence in whatever way you can to just keep moving onto the next page. The only way you will finish projects and get better is to keep moving forward."

- Charles Forsman

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

- Vince Lombardi

"I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love."

- Khoudia Diop

"Mentally strong people overcome setbacks with confidence because adversity only makes them better."

- Amy Morin

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

- Rosalynn Carter

"Confidence is not, 'They will like me'. Confidence instead is, 'I'll be fine if they don't'."

- Christina Grimmie

"Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you."

- Zig Ziglar

"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it's also been about confidence and faith."

- Stephen Curry

"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

"Confidence comes from discipline and training."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Never dull your shine for somebody else."

- Tyra Banks

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess."

- Sabrina Carpenter

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

- William Hazlitt

"You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference."

- Chris Evert

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that which we have in others."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

- Tim Gunn

"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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."

- George Herbert

"Kindness in words creates confidence."

- Laozi

"Control your own destiny or someone else will."

- Jack Welch

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down."

- Al Neuharth

"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."

- Erich Fromm

"One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything."

- John Gielgud

"If you don't ask, the answer is always no."

- Nora Roberts

"Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life."

- John Dewey

"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

- Michel de Montaigne

"Own your body. Challenge your mind."

- Hannah Frankson

"I am, I can, I will, I do."

- Christine D’Ercole

"There’s no limit to what you can do."

- Adrian Williams

"You can’t hate yourself into change. Love yourself into greatness."

- Emma Lovewell

"You are a rockstar. Treat yourself accordingly."

- Hannah Corbin

"Don’t be defined by other people’s expectations. Define your own strengths."

- Susie Chan

"If you think you can’t, change your mind."

- Denis Morton

"Everything you could possibly ever want, have, or need is right here inside of you."

- Kristin McGee

"Never give up because great things take time."

- Adrian Williams

"You are not enough. You are everything!"

- Matty Maggiacomo

"Don’t compare your chapter one with someone else’s chapter six."

- Ally Love

"Acknowledge the fear and do it anyway."

- Emma Lovewell

"Put your crown back on your head and remember who you are."

- Robin Arzón

"They can knock you down, but they can never knock you out."

- Kendall Toole

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"You’re allowed to be a work in progress and a masterpiece at the same damn time."

- Jess Sims

"Inhale confidence, exhale doubt."

- Alex Toussaint

"Challenge yourself, and be determined to thrive."

- Becs Gentry

"Can I do this? Absolutely!"

- Cody Rigsby

"Dream it. Believe it. Receive it."

- Selena Samuela

"You did not wake up to be mediocre."

- Robin Arzón

"Don’t let anyone dim your light. You were born to shine, baby!"

- Kirsten Ferguson

"I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn’t exist."

- Shaquille O'Neal

"Limits only exist in your mind. If you want, you can do so much more."

- Tobias Heinze

"Sometimes you have to fight more than once to win it."

- Bradley Rose

"Feel good. Look good. Do better! … Trust the process."

- Alex Toussaint

"The numbers do not define you."

- Christine D’Ercole

"I think the confidence that I have right now is something that was created by the fans who love me."

- G-Dragon

"The difference between try and triumph is a little ‘umph.’"

- Marvin Phillips

"We’re all about progress, not perfection."

- Selena Samuela

"Trust that you are doing it right."

- Chelsea Jackson Roberts

"Rise up and greet your higher self."

- Kendall Toole

"Look for balance but always be willing to fall."

- Anna Greenberg

"What you have to give, the world needs."

- Aditi Shah

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you."

- Fred Devito

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Experience your own resilience."

- Mariana Fernández

"Don’t rely on compliments for confidence."

- Christine D’Ercole

"Embrace the beauty of uncertainty. It’s a place of infinite possibility."

- Tunde Oyeneyin

"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses."

- Ann Landers

"Bring it. Build it. Become it."

- Sam Yo

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

- Rumi

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

- Martin Luther

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

- Lao Tzu

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

"I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue."

- Jimmy Carter

"Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition."

- Bernard Beckett

"Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals."

- David A. Bednar

"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing."

- Catherine the Great

"There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance."

- Adam Peaty

"Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

- Coco Chanel

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

- Colin Powell

"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist."

- Mary Kay Ash

"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake."

- Basil Hume

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

- Robert Hughes

"I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence."

- Jessica White

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."

- Sally Field

"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."

- Oswald Chambers

"Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong."

- Catherine Zeta-Jones

"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."

- Sigmund Freud

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

- M. Scott Peck

"It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability."

- Samuel Johnson

"Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream."

- George Foreman

"A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear."

- Allegra Versace

"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."

- Pope John Paul II

"I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to ... you have to laugh, especially at yourself."

- Madonna

"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"When I take good care of myself, it lifts my spirits, boosts my confidence, and makes me feel strong. When someone tries to throw me shade, it bounces right off. I look those haters straight in the eye, keep my chin up and shoulders back. Because I know I'm a fierce queen - and they know it, too."

- Alyssa Edwards

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

- Richard Bach

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

- Baruch Spinoza

"Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"Humor comes from self-confidence."

- Rita Mae Brown

"Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives."

- Anthony Bourdain

"Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create."

- Vanna Bonta

"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."

- Potter Stewart

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

- Charles Darwin

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."

- Niccolo Machiavelli

"Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot."

- Truman Capote

"The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen."

- Jose Rizal

"We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs."

- Robert Brault

"The more validation I need, the less discernment I have."

- Kurt Hanks

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."

- Epicurus

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

- Anais Nin

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

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."