100+ Inspiring Positive Self Confidence Quotes to Empower Your Journey

"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

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

- Thomas Alva Edison

"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

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- E. E. Cummings

"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 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

"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

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"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

"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

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Peter T. McIntyre

"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

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Jesse Jackson

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Helen Keller

"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

"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

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Peter T. McIntyre

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

- Buddha

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

- Benjamin Spock

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Blake Lively

"Self-confidence is contagious."

- Stephen Richards

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

- Arthur Ashe

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Christopher Robin

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

- J. M. Barrie

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

- Tina Fey

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

- Avril Lavigne

"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

"Be kinder to yourself, and celebrate little wins."

- Charlotte, The Fringe of It

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

- Winston Churchill

"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.

"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

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive and do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

- Maya Angelou

"You sometimes lose by taking risks, but you always lose by holding back."

- Rachel Wolchin

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

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

- Torrie Asai

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

- Mitch Albom

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Sally Field

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

- Tim Gunn

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

- Oscar Wilde

"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

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

- Truman Capote

"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

"Humor comes from self-confidence."

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Edmund Hillary

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- E. E. Cummings

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."

- Brené Brown

"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

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

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Katy Perry

"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

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Joe Namath

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

- Anna Freud

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Maddy Malhotra

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

- Kurt Cobain

"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

"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

"Life is tough, my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

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

- Michel de Montaigne

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

- Tina Fey

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

- David Storey

"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

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

- Robert Hand

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Paul Tillich

"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

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

- Sean Beaudoin

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

- George Washington

"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

"The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead."

- Bette Davis

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

- William Hazlitt

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

- Lalah Delia

"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

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Rumi

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many–not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

- Charles Dickens

"We are cups constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

- Ray Bradbury

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts."

- Jean Vanier

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

- Richard Bach

"Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it."

- Bryce Courtenay

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

- Chinese Proverb

"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

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

"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself."

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

"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."

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

"You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company."

"Tear off the mask, your face is glorious."

"Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways."