1. Self Confidence Quotes

In a world that constantly challenges our self-perception and resilience, self-confidence stands as a vital pillar of personal growth and success. Often, a few powerful words can ignite a sense of inner strength and inspire transformative change. Whether you're facing a daunting task, striving to reach your goals, or simply looking to boost your inner assurance, the right quote can serve as a beacon of motivation. Here, you'll find a curated collection of the most impactful self-confidence quotes, designed to uplift your spirit and embolden your journey towards self-belief and fulfillment.

1. “I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.” - Madonna

2. “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.” - Edgar Allan Poe

3. “The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's points of view, but she's honest about it. She's a brass-bound bitch because she believes she knows best. I'm a brass-bound bitch because I don't want anyone getting close enough to find out what a whiny little knot of naked nerve endings I really am.” - Robin McKinley

4. “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.” - John Lennon

5. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” - Ralph Waldo Emmerson

6. “Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.” - Coco Chanel

7. “Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.” - Douglas Adams

8. “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” - Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

9. “As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.” - Nic Sheff

10. “Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.” - Jess C. Scott

11. “We are always the same age inside. ” - Gertrude Stein

12. “Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. “I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.” - Drew Barrymore

14. “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

15. “The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.” - Bette Davis

16. “What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.” - Norman Vincent Peale

17. “In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.” - Terry Goodkind

18. “Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.” - Bryce Courtenay

19. “If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.” - Lou Ferrigno

20. “Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly and ill-favored and awkward in bearing. He had always seemed to me quite the reverse: a touch dandyish perhaps but—as the saying goes—perfectly secure in his masculinity. On one occasion, after lunch in Georgetown, he took me with him to a renowned local tobacconist and asked to do something I had never witnessed before: 'try on' a pipe. In case you ever wish to do this, here is the form: a solemn assistant produces a plastic envelope and fits it over the amber or ivory mouthpiece. You then clamp your teeth down to feel if the 'fit' and weight are easy to your jaw. If not, then repeat with various stems until your browsing is complete. In those days I could have inhaled ten cigarettes and drunk three Tanqueray martinis in the time spent on such flaneur flippancy, but I admired the commitment to smoking nonetheless. Taking coffee with him once in a shopping mall in Stanford, I saw him suddenly register something over my shoulder. It was a ladies' dress shop. He excused himself and dashed in, to emerge soon after with some fashionable and costly looking bags. 'Mariam,' he said as if by way of explanation, 'has never worn anything that I have not bought for her.' On another occasion in Manhattan, after acting as a magnificent, encyclopedic guide around the gorgeous Andalusia (Al-Andalus) exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, he was giving lunch to Carol and to me when she noticed that her purse had been lost or stolen. At once, he was at her service, not only suggesting shops in the vicinity where a replacement might be found, but also offering to be her guide and advisor until she had selected a suitable new sac à main. I could no more have proposed myself for such an expedition than suggested myself as a cosmonaut, so what this says about my own heterosexual confidence I leave to others.” - Christopher Hitchens

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

22. “I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.” - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

23. “When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.” - Jodi Picoult

24. “Tis in ourselves that we are thusor thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the whichour wills are gardeners: so that if we will plantnettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed upthyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, ordistract it with many, either to have it sterilewith idleness, or manured with industry, why, thepower and corrigible authority of this lies in ourwills. If the balance of our lives had not onescale of reason to poise another of sensuality, theblood and baseness of our natures would conduct usto most preposterous conclusions: but we havereason to cool our raging motions, our carnalstings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this thatyou call love to be a sect or scion.” - William Shakespeare

25. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” - Sylvia Plath

26. “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

27. “If I am not for myself who is for me?” - Hillel Danziger

28. “He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his work, it's because he never quite felt that he deserved to receive it. He was a lifelong prisoner on the island of himself. What looked like gentle contours from a distance were in fact sheer cliffs. Sometimes only a little of him was crazy, sometimes nearly all of him, but, as an adult, he was never entirely not crazy. What he'd seen of his id while trying to escape his island prison by way of drugs and alcohol, only to find himself even more imprisoned by addiction, seems never to have ceased to be corrosive of his belief in his lovability. Even after he got clean, even decades after his late-adolescent suicide attempt, even after his slow and heroic construction of a life for himself, he felt undeserving. And this feeling was intertwined, ultimately to the point of indistinguishability, with the thought of suicide, which was the one sure way out of his imprisonment; surer than addiction, surer than fiction, and surer, finally, than love.” - Jonathan Franzen

29. “I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy? I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled.” - James Goldman

30. “The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised. The war on terror has had no discernible trajectory, and, unlike other military conflicts, it's almost impossible to define victory. You can't document the war's progress on a world map or chart it on a historical timetable in a way that makes any sense. A country used to a feeling of being in command and control has been whipsawed into a state of perpetual reaction, swinging wildly between passive fear and fevered, often thoughtless, activity, at a high cost to its self-confidence.” - George Packer

31. “Fear is what keeps the walls up, so open the gate and let what you want, in when you want” - Joshua Wright

32. “Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What you think is what counts.” - Rodolfo Costa

33. “To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.” - Abraham Verghese

34. “Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will” - Jack Welch

35. “Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the “tribe” will desert us to die a sad, lonely death.” - Stephen Richards

36. “Tap into ‘The Force’ and soon, at any given time that you need that extra shot of high octane confidence; you will soon be like a Jedi Master at this technique.” - Stephen Richards

37. “Certain situations need a Jedi-like approach. One of these is when you are in a strange environment, usually where you feel unsure of yourself. You would be surprised how, if you walk with confidence and meaning, people will see this as a mark of confidence, yet you are perhaps shaking inside but outwardly you have the gait of a confident Jedi Knight.” - Stephen Richards

38. “Once you feel nice about yourself, you have planted the first seed to develop self-confidence.” - Stephen Richards

39. “Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.” - Stephen Richards

40. “The Jedi is a practitioner of mind mastery. He realizes that whatever they are experiencing, they are creating and that they can change their lives in an instant by changing their thoughts, their focus and the way they are observing and engaging the energy of the world around them and the people who they’ve invited into their lives to play whatever roles they’ve chosen them to play.” - Stephen Richards

41. “Jedi are always assessing situations, actions and possibilities. Jedi don’t just think outside of the box with the help from the Force, they also adapt to situations outside of the box!” - Stephen Richards

42. “Jedi are conversationalists and negotiators, bringing people together and solving problems. Jedi listen and feel to what others are saying.” - Stephen Richards

43. “Jedi act with confidence, move with confidence, and breathe with confidence. Jedi possess a confident calmness in their looks, attitude andbehaviour.” - Stephen Richards

44. “There are two things essential if you want to enhance your Jedi self-confidence: 1/ belief that it is possible 2/ that self-help is the best help” - Stephen Richards

45. “A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.” - Solange nicole

46. “Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?” - Roman Payne

47. “Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies.” - Gina Lake

48. “To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

49. “... I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.” - Mark Haddon

50. “As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.” - Elizabeth I

51. “Suddenly I register that St. Clair is shorter than Josh. Much shorter. It’s odd I didn’t notice earlier, but he doesn’t carry himself like a short guy. Most are shy or defensive, or some messed-up combination of the two, but St. Clair is confident and friendly and—” - Stephanie Perkins

52. “I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?"Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War.” - Rick Riordan

53. “And lose my cock, balls and prostate? Are you kidding me? Honey, I’m still all man. I’m just a man with decoration,” Tommy had explained before turning with a flounce and practically floating out of the room in his heels.” - Vicktor Alexander

54. “I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.” - Bob Schieffer

55. “Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.” - Adriana Trigiani

56. “In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life."(Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009)” - T.C. Boyle

57. “What makes you think that I give a shit about your self-confidence?” - Toba Beta

58. “And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.” - Suzanne Collins

59. “I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn't feel like the Duff must not have friends. Every girl feels unattractive sometimes. Why had it taken me so long to figure that out? Why had I been stressing over that dumb word for so long when it was so simple? I should be proud to be the Duff. Proud to have great friends who, in their minds, were my Duffs.” - Kody Keplinger

60. “Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.” - Sarah Dessen

61. “Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.” - Sophocles

62. “To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!” - Scott Lynch

63. “Одинок полетСветлячка в ночи.Но в небе - звезды."В чем же смысл интуитивно возникшего во мне трехстишья? Человек - одинокий светлячок в бескрайнем мраке ночи. Свет его так слаб, что освещает лишь крошечный кусочек пространства, а вокруг лишь холод, тьма и страх. Но если отвести испуганный взгляд от находящейся внизу темной земли и посмотреть ввысь (всего-то и надо - повернуть голову!), то увидишь, что небо покрыто звездами. Они сияют ровным, ярким и вечным светом. Звезды - твои друзья, они помогут и не бросят в беде. А чуть позже ты понимаешь другое, не менее важное: светлячок - тоже звезда, такая же, как все остальные. Те, что в небе, тоже видят твой свет, и он помогает им вынести холод и мрак Вселенной. Наверное, моя жизнь не изменится. Я буду такой же, как прежде, - и суетный, и вздорный, и подверженный страстям. Но в глубине моей души будет жить достоверное знание. Оно спасет и поддержит меня в трудную минуту. Я больше не мелкая лужа, которую может расплескать по земле сильный порыв ветра. Я - океан, и буря, прокатившись всесокрушающим цунами по моей поверхности, не затронет сокровенных моих глубин.” - Boris Akunin

64. “practice only envisioning yourself at the finish line and be unrelenting and fervent in racing towards that finish line. Undue preoccupation and fixation with the how's, whens, and what ifs will not only derail and further distance you from your destination, but will also feed your mind with those fatal seeds of doubt that make failure inevitable" ~ Awaken and Unleash your Victor” - Ogor Winnie Okoye

65. “I would hesitate to use the word 'success' in the way many people do. I don't know that I would apply it to what I've done as though I have now reached the ultimate goal. To me success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else. Success comes as you have confidence in yourself. Self-confidence is built by succeeding, even if the success is small. It is the believing that makes it possible.” - Walter Knott

66. “How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.” - Richelle Mead

67. “Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance.” - Tara Brach

68. “Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.” - Kathryn Orford

69. “Bite them before they Bite you.” - Annomynous

70. “Self-assurance reassures others.” - Garry Willis

71. “Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.” - Jean Vanier

72. “The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside.” - Anthony Liccione

73. “Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless. Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective.” - Rick Riordan

74. “So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.” - Garth Nix

75. “Each guy stamped the passport of my heart. “You’re worthy.” Stamp. “You’re enough.” “You have not failed completely.” Stamp, stamp.” - Kimberly Novosel

76. “My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.” - Sarah Kay

77. “Learning is a matter of gathering knowledge; wisdom is applying that knowledge.” - Dr Roopleen

78. “You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.” - Dr Roopleen

79. “To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.” - Dr Roopleen

80. “To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.” - Dr Roopleen

81. “It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly.” - Dr Roopleen

82. “Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.” - Dr Roopleen

83. “Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate.” - Dr Roopleen

84. “There is nothing in this world that you cannot do. Every goal is achievable. You just need to focus on your objectives, be persistent in your efforts and work hard to make it happen. There can be no hurdle uncrossable, no obstacle invincible and no stumbling block insurmountable.” - Dr Roopleen

85. “The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again—or of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways.” - Michele Rosenthal

86. “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.” - Dr Roopleen

87. “Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.” - Karen E. Quinones Miller

88. “Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

89. “You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

90. “And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?” - Catherine Gilbert Murdock

91. “Who would you impress if the world was blind?” - Shannon L. Alder

92. “Whoever is trying to bring you down is already beneath you.” - Habeeb Akande

93. “Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.” - jay woodman

94. “It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

95. “I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you...""You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself.” - Shel Silverstein

96. “And my dream for you..........., is that you'll catch a glimpse of what I love so much about fashion: It's boldness and creativity, the confidence that it takes to stand before a camera and let your image be captured, even though you aren't perfect, the peace to be truly okay with how others see you.” - Lauren Scruggs

97. “Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

98. “When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me."That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.” - Augusten Burroughs

99. “People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

100. “Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

101. “Great change doesn't come with official endorsement.” - Patti Digh

102. “Protect your self-esteem and self-confidence - it is your responsibility!” - Mark O'Brien

103. “Strategic personal qualities you can base your self-confidence on are those which are interesting for all mankind.” - Rossana Condoleo

104. “What about thinking of happiness as a right instead than as a gift?” - Rossana Condoleo

105. “How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life.[Written to his wife, Mileva]” - Albert Einstein