Confidence Boosting Quotes:

If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting them all my life.

- Amor Towles

source: Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.135, Hachette UK

topic: Gun, Shooting, Confidence Boosting

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

- Marcus Garvey

source: Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

topic: Confidence, Race, Self, Inspirational Confidence, Supreme Confidence

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.13, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

topic: Confidence, Fear, Weight Loss, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Confidence

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

- Brian Tracy

topic: Positive, Desire, Acting, Confidence And Courage, Confidence And Love

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

- Brigham Young

topic: Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Thinking, Inspiring Self Esteem, Old Self

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

- Arthur Ashe

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Self Esteem

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

source: FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jan 03, 2017

topic: Motivational, Confidence, Running, Improve Self Esteem, Just Believe In Yourself

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Inspirational, Life, Trust, Improve Self Esteem, Live For Yourself

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

topic: Confidence, Successful, Worry, Confidence Boosting, Raise Self Esteem

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Success, Confidence, Needs, Written Goals, Confidence Boosting

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

source: "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

topic: Confidence, Insecure, Thinking, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Self Esteem

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Life, Motivational, Confidence, Inspiring Self Esteem, Building Confidence

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

- Tim Ferriss

topic: Insecure, World, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Self Esteem, Overestimate

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

- Audrey Hepburn

source: "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

topic: Self Esteem, Firsts, Rate, Inspiration And Motivation, Grad

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

- Dr. Seuss

source: Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

topic: Life, Graduation, Confidence, Going To College, Seeing Yourself

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

- Diane von Furstenberg

topic: Inspirational, Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Inspiring Self Esteem, Love Acceptance

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

- Rumi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Sufi

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem, My Own Life, Inspiring Self Esteem

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

- Mark Twain

topic: Confidence, Self Esteem, Positive Thinking, Either Or, Inspiring Self Esteem

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

topic: Confidence, Honesty, Patriotic, Inaugural Address, Unselfish Love

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

To anyone that ever told you you're no good.. they're no better.

- Hayley Williams

topic: Motivational, Confidence, Self Confidence, Confidence In Yourself, Confidence Boosting

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

- Tina Fey

topic: Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem, Stop Caring, Caring Too Much

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

- Wayne Dyer

source: "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

topic: Confidence, Lonely, Clever, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Confidence

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

- Goldie Hawn

topic: Beauty, Running, Running Away, Improving Yourself, Confidence In Yourself

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Beauty, Love You, Giving, Building Confidence, Confidence In Yourself

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

- W. C. Fields

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem, Help Yourself, My Self Worth

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

source: Roderick Thorp (2014). “Rainbow Drive”, p.68, Open Road Media

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Inspiring Self Esteem, My Self Worth

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

- Tina Fey

source: "We Didn't Come to Saturday Night Live To Be Cute" by Tina Fey, www.slate.com. July 25, 2011.

topic: Being Yourself, Witty, Badass, Love My Self, Love Your Self

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

- Elizabeth Taylor

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Self Esteem, Done, Self Determination, Inspirational Self Confidence, Inspirational Self Esteem

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Life, Sad, Creativity, Self-doubt, Improvising

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 about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Insecure, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

- Robert Downey, Jr.

topic: Motivational, Moving On, Confidence, Just Keep Moving Forward, Inspirational Moving Forward

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

- Paul Tillich

source: Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.174, University of Chicago Press

topic: Positive, Confidence, Courage, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirational Confidence

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

- Benjamin Spock

source: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

topic: Family, Trust, Encouraging, Trust Your Instincts, Inspirational Confidence

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Improve Self Esteem, Just Believe In Yourself

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

source: "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Achievement

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

- Anna Freud

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Confidence, Inspirational Self Confidence, Inspirational Self Esteem

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

- Judy Garland

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiration And Motivation, Grad

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

- e. e. cummings

topic: Life, Confidence, Believe, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirational Confidence

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

source: "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Confidence, Empowering Women, Perserverance

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Good Morning, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Confidence

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

- Edmund Hillary

source: "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational High School Graduation

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspiration And Life, Inspiration And Motivation

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inner Voice, Improve Self Esteem

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Way In Life, Trying To Fit In

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Positive, Strength, People, Importunate, Improve Self Esteem

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

- James M. Barrie

source: James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.85, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Improve Self Esteem, Self-doubt