"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
Courage
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
- e e cummings
Belief in Self
"It doesn’t matter if thousands of people believe in you unless you believe in yourself."
- Maddy Malhotra
Belief in Self
"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.
Perseverance
"With confidence, you have won before you have started."
- Marcus Garvey
Belief in Self
"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
Motivation
"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
- Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."
- Oprah Winfrey
Empowerment
"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
Hard Work
"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
Perseverance
"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
Self-confidence
"Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
- Christopher Robin
Courage
"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. Drew
Self-confidence
"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
Self-confidence
"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
Resilience
"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
Self-confidence
"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
Self-confidence
"It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures."
- Oprah Winfrey
Self-confidence
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-awareness
"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
Belief in Self
"The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence."
- Blake Lively
Self-confidence
"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
Belief in Self
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one."
- Elbert Hubbard
Self-confidence
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Failure
"Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong."
- Peter T. McIntyre
Courage
"Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don’t think you can, you won’t."
- Jerry West
Self-confidence
"You have to have confidence in your ability and then be tough enough to follow through."
- Rosalynn Carter
Self-confidence
"When you have confidence, you can do anything."
- Sloane Stevens
Self-confidence
"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
Self-confidence
"Have confidence that if you’ve done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too."
- David Storey
Self-confidence
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
- Anna Freud
Self-awareness
"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."
- Benjamin Spock
Belief in Self
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
- Arthur Ashe
Motivation
"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
Self-confidence
"Always be yourself--express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."
- Bruce Lee
Belief in Self
"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."
- Cicero
Belief in Self
"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy."
- Brian Tracy
Belief in Self
"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
Taking Risks
"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
"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
Self-confidence
"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
Self-confidence
"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
Belief in Self
"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
Taking Risks
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Belief in Self
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
- Michael Jordan
Belief in Self
"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
Success
"Believe in yourself, and you’re halfway there."
- Callie Gullickson
Self-confidence
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-esteem
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
Optimism
"Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude."
- Michelle Obama
Success
"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
Belief in Self
"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
Belief in Self
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
- Thomas Alva Edison
Belief in Self
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
- Anna Freud
Self-awareness
"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
Self-confidence
"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do, and at some point, you will."
- Venus Williams
Belief in Self
"Self-confidence is contagious."
- Stephen Richards
Self-confidence
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
- Sir Edmund Hillary
Personal Growth
"Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Belief in Self
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
- Lucille Ball
Love
"Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it."
- Tina Fey
Self-confidence
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance."
- Bruce Barton
Belief in Self
"You gotta have confidence in yourself first before anybody else will. I've always had that."
- Jayson Tatum
Self-confidence
"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
Courage
"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
Courage
"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
Self-confidence
"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief in Self
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."
- Marcus Garvey
Self-confidence
"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it."
- Robert Anthony
Belief in Self
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."
- Benjamin Disraeli
Self-confidence
"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
"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
Self-confidence
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
- George Washington
Self-confidence
"Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself."
- Khalid
Persistence
"Confidence is key - once you have that, you are unstoppable."
- Timothy Weah
Self-confidence
"Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself."
- Kiesza
Self-esteem
"You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous."
- Gabby Douglas
Self-confidence
"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
Self-confidence
"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
Persistence
"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."
- Vince Lombardi
Self-confidence
"I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love."
- Khoudia Diop
Self-confidence
"Mentally strong people overcome setbacks with confidence because adversity only makes them better."
- Amy Morin
Resilience
"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
- Rosalynn Carter
Self-confidence
"Confidence is not, 'They will like me'. Confidence instead is, 'I'll be fine if they don't'."
- Christina Grimmie
Self-confidence
"Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you."
- Zig Ziglar
Boldness
"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
Integrity
"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
Drive
"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
Personal Growth
"Confidence comes from discipline and training."
- Robert Kiyosaki
Self-confidence
"Never dull your shine for somebody else."
- Tyra Banks
Boldness
"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess."
- Sabrina Carpenter
Self-confidence
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity."
- William Hazlitt
Self-confidence
"You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference."
- Chris Evert
Taking Risks
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that which we have in others."
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Self-confidence
"You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own."
- Tim Gunn
Self-confidence
"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
Ambition
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
- Oscar Wilde
Self-care
"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."
- George Herbert
Self-confidence
"Kindness in words creates confidence."
- Laozi
Compassion
"Control your own destiny or someone else will."
- Jack Welch
Responsibility
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one."
- Elbert Hubbard
Facing Fears
"I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down."
- Al Neuharth
Facing Fears
"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."
- Erich Fromm
Belief in Self
"One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything."
- John Gielgud
Self-esteem
"If you don't ask, the answer is always no."
- Nora Roberts
Taking Risks
"Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life."
- John Dewey
Courage
"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Belief
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
- Michel de Montaigne
Self-awareness
"Own your body. Challenge your mind."
- Hannah Frankson
Self-care
"I am, I can, I will, I do."
- Christine D’Ercole
Self-confidence
"There’s no limit to what you can do."
- Adrian Williams
Self-confidence
"You can’t hate yourself into change. Love yourself into greatness."
- Emma Lovewell
Self-esteem
"You are a rockstar. Treat yourself accordingly."
- Hannah Corbin
Self-esteem
"Don’t be defined by other people’s expectations. Define your own strengths."
- Susie Chan
Self-esteem
"If you think you can’t, change your mind."
- Denis Morton
Belief in Self
"Everything you could possibly ever want, have, or need is right here inside of you."
- Kristin McGee
Self-awareness
"Never give up because great things take time."
- Adrian Williams
Perseverance
"You are not enough. You are everything!"
- Matty Maggiacomo
Self-esteem
"Don’t compare your chapter one with someone else’s chapter six."
- Ally Love
Self-esteem
"Acknowledge the fear and do it anyway."
- Emma Lovewell
Courage
"Put your crown back on your head and remember who you are."
- Robin Arzón
Self-esteem
"They can knock you down, but they can never knock you out."
- Kendall Toole
Resilience
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition
"You’re allowed to be a work in progress and a masterpiece at the same damn time."
- Jess Sims
Self-improvement
"Inhale confidence, exhale doubt."
- Alex Toussaint
Mindfulness
"Challenge yourself, and be determined to thrive."
- Becs Gentry
Determination
"Can I do this? Absolutely!"
- Cody Rigsby
Self-confidence
"Dream it. Believe it. Receive it."
- Selena Samuela
Aspirations
"You did not wake up to be mediocre."
- Robin Arzón
Self-confidence
"Don’t let anyone dim your light. You were born to shine, baby!"
- Kirsten Ferguson
Self-esteem
"I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn’t exist."
- Shaquille O'Neal
Self-confidence
"Limits only exist in your mind. If you want, you can do so much more."
- Tobias Heinze
Self-improvement
"Sometimes you have to fight more than once to win it."
- Bradley Rose
Perseverance
"Feel good. Look good. Do better! … Trust the process."
- Alex Toussaint
Self-improvement
"The numbers do not define you."
- Christine D’Ercole
Self-esteem
"I think the confidence that I have right now is something that was created by the fans who love me."
- G-Dragon
Self-confidence
"The difference between try and triumph is a little ‘umph.’"
- Marvin Phillips
Determination
"We’re all about progress, not perfection."
- Selena Samuela
Self-improvement
"Trust that you are doing it right."
- Chelsea Jackson Roberts
Self-confidence
"Rise up and greet your higher self."
- Kendall Toole
Self-improvement
"Look for balance but always be willing to fall."
- Anna Greenberg
Balance
"What you have to give, the world needs."
- Aditi Shah
Contribution
"If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you."
- Fred DeVito
Change
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
- Arthur Ashe
Motivation
"Experience your own resilience."
- Mariana Fernández
Resilience
"Don’t rely on compliments for confidence."
- Christine D’Ercole
Self-esteem
"Embrace the beauty of uncertainty. It’s a place of infinite possibility."
- Tunde Oyeneyin
Self-improvement
"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
Love
"Bring it. Build it. Become it."
- Sam Yo
Self-confidence
"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."
- Rumi
Personal Growth
"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
Faith
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
- Lao Tzu
Compassion
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
- Mark Twain
Success
"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
Integrity
"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
Optimism
"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
Faith
"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing."
- Catherine the Great
Leadership
"There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance."
- Adam Peaty
Self-awareness
"Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."
- Coco Chanel
Success
"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
Leadership
"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist."
- Mary Kay Ash
Integrity
"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
Faith
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
- Robert Hughes
Creativity
"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
Positivity
"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
- Sally Field
Self-awareness
"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."
- Oswald Chambers
Faith
"Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong."
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
Self-confidence
"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
Self-confidence
"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"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
Self-esteem
"It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability."
- Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence
"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
Empowerment
"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
Self-confidence
"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
Faith
"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
Self-confidence
"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
Belief in Self
"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
Self-care
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."
- Richard Bach
Self-awareness
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
- Baruch Spinoza
Peace
"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
Self-awareness
"Humor comes from self-confidence."
- Rita Mae Brown
Self-confidence
"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
Integrity
"Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create."
- Vanna Bonta
Self-awareness
"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."
- Potter Stewart
Awareness
"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
Knowledge
"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
Leadership
"Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot."
- Truman Capote
Empowerment
"The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen."
- Jose Rizal
Awareness
"We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs."
- Robert Breault
Self-awareness
"The more validation I need, the less discernment I have."
- Kurt Hanks
Self-awareness
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."
- Epicurus
Connection to Earth
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
- Anais Nin
Awareness
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
Self-esteem
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."
Self-awareness
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
Self-awareness