Self Confidence Building Quotes:

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Beauty, Improve Self Esteem, Just Believe In Yourself

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

- Peter McIntyre

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

Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Confidence, Powerful, Love You, Inspirational Self Esteem, Building Confidence

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

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

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

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Positive, Happiness, Success, Empowering Women, Inspirational Feminist

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

- Samuel Johnson

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

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

- Malcolm Forbes

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

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

- Eric Thomas

topic: Confidence, Thinking, Nutrition And Exercise, Building Confidence, Confidence Building

I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.

- Queen Latifah

topic: Beauty, Sexy, Hate, Love Me Or Hate Me, Inspirational Self Esteem

You can have anything you want

- Jenifer Lewis

topic: Want, Eldest, Inspirational Self Confidence, Inspirational Success Failure, Singleness

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational Self Confidence

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

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

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

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

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 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

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

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself, Inspirational Beauty, Sensitive Person

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.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Confidence, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Confidence

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Fear, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

- Mark Twain

topic: Confidence, Good Life, Inspirational Life, Inspiring Self Esteem, Building Confidence

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

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