100+ Quotes That Inspire Confidence and Empower Your Inner Strength

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

- Callie Gullickson

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

- Benjamin Spock

"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

"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

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

- Venus Williams

"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

"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

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

- Christopher Robin

"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

"Self-confidence is contagious."

- Stephen Richards

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- John Gielgud

"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

"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

"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."

- George Herbert

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Control your own destiny or someone else will."

- Jack Welch

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

- Cicero

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Erich Fromm

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

- John Dewey

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

- Sir Edmund Hillary

"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

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

- Michel de Montaigne

"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

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

- Tina Fey

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Arthur Ashe

"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

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

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

"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

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

- Marcus Garvey

"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.

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

- Bruce Barton

"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

"Never give up because great things take time."

- Adrian Williams

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

- Anna Freud

"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

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

- Michelle Obama

"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

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

- Bradley Rose

"Can I do this? Absolutely!"

- Cody Rigsby

"Dream it. Believe it. Receive it."

- Selena Samuela

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

- Marvin Phillips

"Own your body. Challenge your mind."

- Hannah Frankson

"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

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

- Kirsten Ferguson

"Experience your own resilience."

- Mariana Fernández

"Don’t rely on compliments for confidence."

- Christine D’Ercole

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

- Shaquille O'Neal

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

- Alex Toussaint

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

- Tobias Heinze

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Brian Tracy

"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

"Bring it. Build it. Become it."

- Sam Yo

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

- Susie Chan

"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

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

- Denis Morton

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

- Thomas Alva Edison

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

- Kristin McGee

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

- Helen Keller

"The numbers do not define you."

- Christine D’Ercole

"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 Stevens

"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

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

- Anna Freud

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

- e e cummings

"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

"You did not wake up to be mediocre."

- Robin Arzón

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- William Hazlitt

"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

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

- Anna Greenberg

"Rise up and greet your higher self."

- Kendall Toole

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

- Aditi Shah

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Fred DeVito

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

- Tunde Oyeneyin

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

- Blake Lively

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

- Selena Samuela

"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

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"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

"Kindness in words creates confidence."

- Laozi

"Never dull your shine for somebody else."

- Tyra Banks

"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

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

- Bryce Courtenay

"Humor comes from self-confidence."

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Nora Roberts

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

- Epicurus

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

- Al Neuharth

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

- Robert Anthony

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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."

"Just pick a goal, a goal you truly want to achieve, and take a clear-eyed look at your weaknesses–not so you’ll feel less confident, but so you can determine exactly what you need to work on. Then get to work. Celebrate small successes. Analyze your weaknesses. Keep going. As you gain skill, you’ll also gain a feeling of genuine confidence, one that can never be taken away–because you’ve earned it."