Confidence Quotes

You are a piece of the puzzle of someone else's life. You may never know where you fit, but others will fill the holes in their lives with pieces of you.- Bonnie Arbon

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

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

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

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.- Sally Field

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

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.- Dr. Benjamin Spock

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

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.- David Brinkley

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.- Marcus Garvey

Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.- Amy Jo Martin

Happiness is the secret to all beauty; there is no beauty that is attractive without happiness.- Christian Dior

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.- W.C. Fields

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.- John H. Johnson

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

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.- Diane Arbus

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

With confidence, you have won before you have started.- Marcus Garvey

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people. - Marilyn Manson

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

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.- Peter T. McIntyre

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.- Aimee Mullins

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

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 have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.- Michael Jordan

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.- Gloria Naylor

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.- Fred Durst

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.- Buddha

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.- Rene Descartes

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.-  Pope John Paul II

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

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

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.- Roger Staubach

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.- Cecil Selig

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.- Dorothy Kilgallen

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.- Richard Kline

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

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.- Hedy Lamarr

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

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.- Ellen Goodman

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.- William Hazlitt

I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.- Shakira

If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.- Don Ward

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.- Johnny Unitas

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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along'.- Eleanor Roosevelt

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.- Pete Wentz

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.- Andrew Carnegie

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.- Charles Dickens

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.- Henry David Thoreau

Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.- Catherine Zeta-Jones

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.- Blake Lively

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