41 Greatest Confidence Quotes

Finding the right way to cultivate self confidence can help you achieve new lengths of success. Here is a look at some of the greatest confidence quotes that will encourage you in your quest for new experiences.

“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”

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

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”

“But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration–because it’s a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks…”

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

“Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.”

“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”

“Don’t you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are.”

“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.”

“Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.”

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

“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”

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”

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

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

“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, at whatever cost, must be attained.”

“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

“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”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“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.”

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

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

“Self-confidence is the memory of success.”

“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”

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

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”

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

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

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

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

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”

“To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.”

“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”

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.”

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.”

“With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.”

“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”

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

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

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

Having the right encouragement will help you to acquire the confidence you need to make your dreams come true.