Confidence Quotes

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God. 

~ Swami Vivekananda

I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a good deal especially in mind. Further, on this subject, I did not consider it advisable to dwell, for the details of what I had undergone belonged to a portion of my existence in which I never expected my godmother to take a share. Into what a new region would such a confidence have led that hale, serene nature! The difference between her and me might be figured by that between the stately ship cruising safe on smooth seas, with its full complement of crew, a captain gay and brave, and venturous and provident; and the life-boat, which most days of the year lies dry and solitary in an old, dark boat-house, only putting to sea when the billows run high in rough weather, when cloud encounters water, when danger and death divide between them the rule of the great deep. No, the Louisa Bretton never was out of harbour on such a night, and in such a scene: her crew could not conceive it; so the half-drowned life-boat man keeps his own counsel, and spins no yarns.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

~ Bernard M. Baruch

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

~ Paulo Coelho

Accept who you are, and revel in it.

~ Mitch Albom

A great man is always willing to be little.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

~ Richard Feynman

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

~ Peter V. Brett

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

~ Henrik Ibsen

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it, the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

~ Criss Jami

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

~ Anne Rice

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.

~ Gautama Buddha

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

~ Criss Jami

And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.

~ Nicholas Sparks

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

~ Jane Austen

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. - Emmett Cullen

~ Stephenie Meyer

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

~ David J. Schwartz

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

~ Gene Simmons

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, he explained. I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

~ Arthur Golden

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

~ Marilyn Monroe

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

~ Julien Smith

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

~ Tyra Banks

I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence.” I continued. “The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.

~ Rasmenia Massoud

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

~ Thomas Merton

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

~ Criss Jami

There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.

~ Hannah Hart

Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.

~ Bernhard Schlink

I'm young as morningand fresh as dew.Everybody loves meand so do you.

~ Maya Angelou

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.

~ Zig Ziglar

Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the question.

~ Melissa Senate

His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

Whever I came into the room, she'd light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my entire life was ever as happy to see me as she was. Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.

~ Adriana Trigiani

When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.

~ Jonathan Maberry

The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away.I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.

~ Lynda Barry

It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?The world's a lot bigger than I am.

~ Liz Kessler