Confidence is one of the most important aspects of personal growth and success. It is a feeling of secure worthiness that can be seen as the opposite of anxiety.
The importance of having confidence in oneself cannot be overstated. If you don’t believe in yourself, others won’t believe in you either, and success will become increasingly difficult to achieve. The more confident you are, the better your chances for success are, but it takes a lot of work to build up self-confidence from scratch – which is why so many people turn to drugs or alcohol as temporary solutions.
Achieving self-confidence is not just about making yourself happy all the time; it’s also about being true to yourself, despite popular opinion or what society tells you should be done.
Here are 125 confidence quotes to inspire you and make you believe in yourself
“Confidence comes from discipline and training.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“if you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.” – Wayne Dyer
“You were born to be real, not to be perfect.” – Author Unknown
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
“Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.” – Alan Cohen
“As is our confidence, so is our capacity.” – William Hazlitt
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.” – Venus Williams
“When you have confidence, you can do anything.” – Sloane Stephens
“Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you’re confident even when you’re not.” – Vanessa Hudgens
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” – Arthur Ashe
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” – Mark Twain
“I think confidence is a true form of beauty.” – Becky G
“Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.” – Curtis Jackson
“Confidence is everything in this business.” – Reese Witherspoon
“If you don’t have any confidence, you’re not going to do anything.” – Stefon Diggs
“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
“Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.” – Harry Houdini
“With confidence, you have won before you have started.” – Marcus Garvey
“When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it’s game over for everyone else.” – Jason Day
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” ― Arthur Ashe
“When you win, you don’t get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.” – Diego Maradona
“Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.” – Dalai Lama
“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
“The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.” – Blake Lively
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” – Samuel Johnson
“Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.” – Leslie Mann
“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
“Be yourself. People don’t have to like you and you don’t have to care.”
“Confidence is not ‘they will like me’. Confidence instead is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t’.” ― Christina Grimmie
“I am who I am. Not who you think I am. Not who you want me to be. I am me.”
“To anyone that ever told you you’re no good … They’re no better.” — Hayley Williams
“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 … ” ― James Cameron
“In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.” – Carter G. Woodson
“Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.” – Sabrina Carpenter
“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.” — Richard Bach
“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
“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” – Marcus Garvey
“Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.” – Jessica Williams
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.” – Zig Ziglar
“Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.” – David Storey
“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
“Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.” – Richard Kline
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.” – Maxwell Maltz
“Confidence is a very fragile thing.” – Joe Montana
“I have a lot of confidence in my game. I love to play with confidence, be aggressive, and that’s just how I’ve always done it.” – Jordan Spieth
“With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” – Dalai Lama
“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
“I never had confidence – never. The hardest thing to know is your own worth, and it took me years and years to find out what mine is.” – Peggy Lipton
“Confidence is the number one thing I find attractive.” – Ronda Rousey
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
“Inhale confidence, exhale doubt.”
“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” – Fred Rogers
“Put all excuses aside and remember this – you are capable.” – Zig Ziglar
“The most important thing is to have opportunities and feel confidence in yourself.” – Javier Hernandez
“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 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 is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening.”
“Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you’re confident even when you’re not.” – Vanessa Hudgens
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” — Peter T. Mcintyre
“Confidence is everything. Confidence is what makes that simple white tee and jeans look good.” – Ciara
“My confidence comes from the daily grind – training my butt off day in and day out.” – Hope Solo
“You’ve got to put in the work. And you’ve got to play with confidence. You’ve got to believe in yourself.” – Paul Pierce
“Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.” – Arnold Palmer
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” — Mark Twain
“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
“One important key to success is self confidence. An important key to self confidence is preparation.” – Arthur Ashe
“Your teammates give you confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.” – LeBron James
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ” ― Andre Dubus
“When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.” – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” – Vince Lombardi
“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
“The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.” — Blake Lively
“I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.” – Olivia Wilde
“Confidence is like “Show up in every single moment like you’re meant to be there.”
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.” ― Richard Bach
“To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven.
Your desire for what you want just has to be greater than your fear of it. That’s all.” – Neil Strauss
“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
“My confidence comes from knowing I do the right things in my life. I do the right things in the gym. I do the right things all together.” – Daniel Cormier
“I’ve always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.” – Eddie Murphy
“Stop doubting yourself. Work hard, and make it happen.”
“I am confident because I can admit who I am, what I’ve done, and love myself for who I’ve become.”
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown
“We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” — Marianne Williamson
“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” ― e.e. cummings
“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
“Don’t take anything for granted. If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a little more confidence.” – Cathy Moriarty
“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” – Stan Smith
“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.” ― Paul Tillich
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” ― Thomas Alva Edison
“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
“The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.” – James Madison
“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
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
“The most beautiful things you can wear is confidence.”
“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
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
“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
“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.” ― Brene Brown
“Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey
“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. You know more than you think you do.” ― Dr. Benjamin Spock
“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
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember – the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar
“Your energy introduces you before you even speak.”
“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
“Coffee in one hand. Confidence in the other.”
“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 Kubler-Ross
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” ― Peter T. Mcintyre
“Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Dr. Benjamin Spock
