Everyone feels down on themselves from time to time. When you’re lacking in confidence, it can feel like the world is against you. But it’s important to remember that you’re not alone. We all have moments when we question ourselves. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of 45 of the best confidence quotes out there.
From Eleanor Roosevelt to Maya Angelou, these words of wisdom will remind you that you have what it takes to succeed. So, the next time you’re feeling low, read through these and remind yourself that you’re amazing just the way you are. You got this!
Enjoy these confidence quotes!
1) “When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it’s game over for everyone else.” – Jason Day
2) “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” – Mark Twain
3) “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4) “Never be bullied into silence…Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
5) “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
6) “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
7) “When you have confidence, you can do anything.” – Sloane Stevens
8) “Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.” – Sabrina Carpenter
9) “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” – Vince Lombardi
You can do anything…
10) “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
11) “In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.” – Carter G. Woodson
12) “Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” – Martin Luther
13) “Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.” – Sophocles
14) “Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.” – David Storey
15) “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
16) “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” - Maya Angelou
17) “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
18) “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
19) “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
Quotes that remind us to believe in ourselves…
20) “Self-belief is not self-centered. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves.” – Carla H. Krueger
21) “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu
22) “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” – bell hooks
23) “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” – Colin Powell
24) “Never let success get to your head; never let failures get to your heart.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
25) “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
26) “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
27) “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers
28) “The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.” – Blake Lively
29) “You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.” – Lou Holtz
Confidence Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
30) “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
31) “We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face … we must do that which we think we cannot.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
32) “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit” – e e cummings
33) “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
34) “As is our confidence, so is our capacity.” – William Hazlitt
35) “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
36) “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” – J. M. Barrie
37) “To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.” – Roy T. Bennett
38) “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
39) “Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect…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
Confidence quotes inspire you to not change for anyone…
40) “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions…Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey
41) “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
42) “With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” – The Dalai Lama
43) “Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.” – Avril Lavigne
44) “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” – Rosalynn Carter
45) “Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.” – Michelle Obama
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