Self Confidence Motivational 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

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

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

topic: Beautiful, Being Yourself, Freedom, Live For Yourself, Definition Of Beauty

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

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

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

- Golda Meir

topic: Motivational, Happiness, Being Happy, Live For Yourself, Inner Life

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

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

topic: Positive, Individuality, Theatre, Live For Yourself, Just Being You

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

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

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

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

- Brené Brown

topic: Confidence, Someone You Love, Like You, Words Of Confidence, Boost Your Confidence

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

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

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

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

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

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

- William Jennings Bryan

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Confidence, Improve Self Esteem, Taking Risks

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

- Tim Field

topic: Silence, Victim, Bullied, Live For Yourself, Definition Of Beauty

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Being Yourself, Motivation, Regret, Inspirations Being Yourself, Live Without Regrets

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

- Samuel Johnson

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

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Attitude, Inspirational Coaching

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Inspirational Self Esteem

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

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

But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks....

- James Cameron

topic: Confidence, Art, Risk, Boost Your Confidence, Self Confidence Motivational

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

- Bindi Irwin

source: Instagram post by Bindi Irwin @bindisueirwin, www.instagram.com. June 2, 2015.

topic: Needs, Accepting Yourself, Accepted, Self Healing, Inspiring Self Esteem

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

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Confidence, Adventure, Mind, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Confidence

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

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 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

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

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

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

You can have anything you want

- Jenifer Lewis

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

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

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

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

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

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Self Esteem, Forget, True Self, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Self Confidence

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

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

To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying, Understanding Yourself, Self Healing

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