Self-Confidence Quotes

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. Thomas Carlyle

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson

Confidence is half of victory. Yiddish Proverb

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look. Marcus Aurelius

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. Anonymous

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

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

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. Muhammad Ali

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

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Mark Twain

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. Cicero

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health. Dalai Lama

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face. Helen Keller

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. Orison Swett Marden

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

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. Marcus Garvey

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel 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. Madame Curie

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

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. Malcolm S. Forbes