140 Confidence Quotes To Help You Believe In Yourself
Confidence, according to Psychology Today, is “a belief in oneself, the conviction that one has the ability to meet life’s challenges and succeed, and the willingness to act accordingly.”
When one feels confident themselves, they trust their qualities judgement, and abilities. Self-confidence is an important part of your psychological well-being and your physical well-being.
As you believe in yourself, you’re able to put your energy and time to things that matter to you, you’re able to try new things, create good relationships, and make good lifestyle choices.
With the rise of social media, there’s been a rise of confidence issues. It can be hard to stop comparing ourselves to others.
Some of us may have insecurity with public speaking, doing our work at our jobs, or even meeting a new person.
As a result, we may worry and wonder if we’ll ever make new friends, have a significant other, or be taken seriously.
Fortunately, there are a variety of ways you can help to boost your level of self-confidence.
Among the ways we can do that is through practicing social media minimalism, self-care journaling, exercising, and even reading quotes on being confident.
Here are some quotes that will inspire to reach your highest level of self-confidence yet.
140 Quotes About Confidence
1. “Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.” – Sabrina Carpenter
2. “In fact, the confidence of the people s worth more than money.” – Carter G. Woodson
3. “When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it’s game over for everyone else.” – Jason Day
4. “When you have confidence, you can do anything.” – Sloane Stephens
5. “As is our confidence, so is our capacity.” – William Hazlitt
6. “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” – Vince Lombardi
7. “Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could state his life on it a thousand times.” – Martin Luther
8. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence and then success is sure.” – Mark Twain
9. “Confidence a lot of this game or any game. If you think you can, you won’t.” – Jerry West
10. “Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.” – Robert Staubach
11. “Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.” – George Herbert
12. 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
13. “The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.” – Blake Lively
14. “Confidence is a very fragile thing.” – Joe Montana
15. “Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” – Cicero
16. “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
17. “Confidence comes from discipline and training.” – Robert Kiyosaki
18. “When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.” – Joe Namath
19. “Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” – Peter T. Mcintyre
20. “Confidence is when you believe in yourself and your abilities, arrogance is when you think you are better than others and act accordingly.” – Stewart Stafford
21. Confidence isn’t optimism or Pessmism, and it’s not a character attribute. IT’s the expectation of a positive outcome.” – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
22. “With confidence, you have now before you have started.” – Marcus Garvey
23. “Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” – Stan Smith
24. “Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
25. “Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I’m able to do what I want without anybody thinking it’s dumb.” – Amy Lee
26. “If you don’t have any confidence, you’re not going to do anything.” – Stefon Diggs
27. “Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.” Richard Kline
28. The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.” – James Madison
Confidence boosting and confidence building quotes
Let’s boost those confidence levels even more with more inspiring words from some of the greatest and best people who’ve been on the planet.
Remember that confidence involves owning who you are and being comfortable with that. It’s believing in yourself and knowing that you have worth and you are enough.
Being confident can change the way you present yourself to the world. That causes people to have more belief in you. It increases your chances of success in school, work, relationships, sports, and many other activities and tasks.
How you present yourself can also increase the likelihood that you’ll have new opportunities that can come your way.
Here are some more quotes that can help you build confidence and adopt a can-do attitude.
29. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu
30. “Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” – Wendy Wasserstein
31. “Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.” – Jessica Williams”
32. “Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at wo ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.” – Barbra Streisand.
33. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
34. “A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.” – Virat Kohli
35. “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 loved through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ – Elanor Roosevelt
36. “I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.” – Jane Fonda
37. “Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.” – Norman Vincent Peale
38. “Find what you feel comfortable. The confidence you wear your clothes in is what’s really going to shine.” Hayley Hasselhoff
39. “If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.” – Katy Perry
40. “The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.” – Mae Jemison
41. “I’ve always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.” – Eddie Murphy
42. “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
43. “You have to have confidence ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” – Rosalynn Carter
44. 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
45. “There’s a confidence and sense of self that cmes with age that I didn’t anticipate.” – Jillian Michaels
46. “For if you train hard and responsibly, your confidence surges to a maximum.” – Floyd Patterson
47, “I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day.” – Lynn Good
48. “For me, so far, confidence has been a journey, not a destination.” – Jessica Williams
49. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.” – Henry Ford
50. “When you win, you don’t get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.” – Diego Maradona
51. “Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.” – Leslie Mann
52. “Sometimes, if you fake confidence long enough, you’re going to be confident.” -Elle King
53. “Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.” – Danica McKellar
54. “I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else’s insecurities to be your own.” – Jessie J
55. “Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.” – Arnold Palmer
56. “Confidence comes from knowing what you’re doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.” – Tom Landry
57. “Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.” – Nicole Scherzinger
58. “If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.” – Conor McGregor
59. “For me, it’s always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it’s only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.” – Aaron Rodgers
60. “Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.” – Michelle Obama
61. “I taught myself confidence. When I’d walk into a room and feel scared to death, I’d tell myself, ‘I’m not afraid of anybody.’ And people believed me. You’ve got to teach yourself to take over the world.” – Priyanka Chopra Jones
62. “You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.” – Gabby Douglas
63. “You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.” – Zig Ziglar
64. “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.” – Marie Curie
65. “It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.” – Lillian Helman
66. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
67. “Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you’re confident even when you’re not.” – Vanessa Hudgens
68. “It takes a lot for you to find your confidence, but you shouldn’t let something else be the person to find it for you.” – Justine Skye
69. “Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.” -Thomas Carlyle
70. “A calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence so that’s very important for good health.” – Dalai Lama
71. “Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.” – David Storey
Self-confidence quotes
Many people are aware that there’s attraction with confidence. People who believe in who they are and what they do tend to be viewed as more attractive.
It’s of course important not to take confidence to the level of arrogance. It is possible to be confident but humble.
Some can mistake being less open and quieter with insecurity, but in actuality, one can be confident in themselves and be that way as well.
No matter what version of self-confidence you choose to exhibit in yourself, these quotes are all about facing your fears, finding self-confidence, and doing what you desire in life.
72. “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.” – Lao Tzu
73. “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” – Anna Freud
74. “Each time we face our fear. We gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
75. “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? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the ssame. As we are liberatd from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Marianne Williamson
76. “I never had confidence – never. The hardest thing to know is your own worth, and it too me years and years to find out what mine is.” – Peggy Lipton
77. “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock
78. “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” – Marcus Garvey
79. “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness set in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
80. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – E.E. Cummings
81. “I’ve studied the lives of the 20th century’s great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.” – Alex Spanos
82. “Always be yourself. Express yourself. Have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee
83. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them” – Michael Jordan
84. “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
85. “You’ve got to put in the work. And you’ve got to pay with confidence. You’ve got to believe in yourself.” – Paul Pierce
86. “Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” – Samuel Johnson
87. “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
88. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Elanor Roosevelt
89. “Always remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin
90. “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
91. “It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.” – Oprah Winfrey
92. “You, yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe deserves your love and affection.” – Buddha
93. “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” – Arthur Ashe
94. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
95. “Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who youa re and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life because this knowledge a carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.” – Sheri L. Drew
96. “Self-confidence is the memory of success” – David Storey
97. “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 ow. 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
98. “It’s all about confidence and how you feel about yourself. There’s no such thing as a perfect woman. I like imperfections – that’s what makes you unique.” – Hayley Hasselhoff
99. “To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until yu die if you wait, you die no. If you love, you live now.” – Alan Cohen
100. “With the realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” – Dalai Lama
101. “Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.” Brian Tracy
102. “Don’t take anything for granted. If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a little more confidence.” – Cathy Moriarty
103. “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
104. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey
105. “Don’t you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are.” – Jo Blackwell-Preston
106. “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 inside out.” – Alan Cohen
107. If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” – Anonymous
108. “We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.” – Roderick Thorp
109. “Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.” – Venus Williams
110. “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
111. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” – Mark Twain
Quotes about self-belief
As stressed throughout this article and worth stressing again, confidence is believing in yourself. Self-respect, self-value, self-love, self-esteem, that’s on you.
The biggest dream and goal for most of us is to have the confidence to live the life we want to live and be the person we want to be.
With any journey in life, you just have to take it one step at a time. Fully believing in who you are doesn’t have to happen overnight.
You can take it one step at a time. You could try one new thing a day or maybe do something that makes you nervous once in a while.
It can be as simple as introducing yourself to someone or just going out for a walk daily. You might make mistakes, but as long as you keep moving forward, things can eventually work out.
Here are a few more quotes to ignite more self-belief in yourself
112. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
113. “When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is not limit to what you can achieve.” – Roy T. Bennett
114. “Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.” – Lilly Singh
115. “Life is too short to waste any amount f time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first lace, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn’t have the time to sit around and talk about you. What’s important to me is not others’ opinions of me, but what’s important to me is my opinion of myself.” – C. Joybell C.
116. “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know is own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” – John Joseph Powell
117. “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
118. “Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don’t stad a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you will never know true happiness until someone or something pull you back out of that river – and you’ll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you.” – Alysha Speer
119. “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
120. “The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself. What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it’s your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who’s not full of hate, who’s able to smile and be carefree. So that’s who I have to be.” – C. Joybell C.
121. “It doesn’t matter if thousands of people believe in you, unless you believe in you.” – Maddy Malhotra
122. “The best lighting rod for your protection is your own spine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
123. “Self-respect, self-worth, and self-love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.” – Rob Liano
124. “If you think you can then you can.” – Stephen Richards
125. “Believe that you can make your way. Or don’t. Either way, you are right.” – Jennifer Donnelly
126. “Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
127. “Never let success go to your head, and never let failures go to your heart.” – Anthony Joshua
128. “Self-belief is not self-centered. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves.” – Carla H. Krueger
129. “We established most of our self-beliefs during our childhood, but they were based on our limited understanding of the world around us. They are either flawed or have become outdated. We can’t take these beliefs at face value anymore.” – Yong Kang Chan
130. “If you are to succeed in life, you must believe that you can succeed. That self-belief lifts you up.” – Benjamin Kofi Quansah
131. “How strongly you believe you really can will play the biggest part in determining if you actually will.” – Lorri Faye
132. “A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Zen Shin
133. “Confidence is not ‘They will like me.’ Confidence is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t.” – Christina Grimme
134. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel
135. “Confidence is your reward for overcoming fear.” – Anonymous
136. “Don’t let others put thoughts in your mind that takes away your self-confidence.” – Katori Hall
137. “Confidence comes naturally with success. But success comes only to those who are confident.”
138. “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
139. “Confidence begins when you finally realize that you count and tha it’s no longer acceptable for you to settle for less.” – Anonymous
140. “You will never be perfect, but you will always be enough.” – Trevor Carss
141. “Self-confidence is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening. – Anonymous
Final thoughts on confidence
Hopefully all of these quotes have inspired you to believe more in yourself and be more confident in life.
You have the ability to accept who you are and walk tall in the person that you uniquely present yourself as.
Never let anyone bring you down for not liking the way you live or act. Do your best to feel good about the person you are in every situation.
Be proud of yourself and make the most of the life you’ve been given.
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