77 Self-Confidence Boosting Quotes

In a world where self-doubt often creeps into our daily lives, finding sources of inspiration to bolster our confidence can make all the difference. The right words at the right time can ignite a spark within us, reminding us of our worth, abilities, and potential. To help you on your journey to greater self-assurance, we’ve curated a collection of the top 77 self-confidence boosting quotes. These timeless words of wisdom, from renowned thinkers and leaders, are designed to uplift, empower, and motivate you to embrace your authentic self and stride confidently towards your goals. Dive in and let these quotes be your guide to a more self-assured, empowered you.

1. “We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.” - Frank Herbert

2. “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

3. “Believe you can and you're halfway there.” - Theodore Roosevelt

4. “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

6. “If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!” - Jesse Jackson

7. “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

8. “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

9. “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” - Rumi

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

11. “No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy” - Paris Hilton

12. “Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for that matter. Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!” - Armistead Maupin

13. “Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis’s comments on them, and burned them.” - A.S. Byatt

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

15. “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

16. “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

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

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

19. “At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey.” - Steve Maraboli

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

21. “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

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

23. “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

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

25. “Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.” - Avril Lavigne

26. “I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]” - Cormac McCarthy

27. “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

28. “When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!” - Dr. Tae Yun Kim

29. “Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals.” - Stephen Richards

30. “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

31. “Your core, lying deep within you, is what makes you what you are. Some call it the soul, the Higher Self, the true self, the being and so on. The name is unimportant once you realize that you are more than your looks and outward appearance.” - Stephen Richards

32. “This inner Being is all powerful, intelligent, indestructible and a storehouse of knowledge and wisdom. This inner core is truly who and what you are and is perpetually trying to connect with your outward self.” - Stephen Richards

33. “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

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

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

36. “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

37. “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

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

39. “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

40. “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

41. “... 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

42. “Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” - Lucille Ball

43. “Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.” - Criss Jami

44. “Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.” - Tina Fey

45. “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

46. “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

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

48. “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

49. “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

50. “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

51. “Learn to be brave and adventurous because you’ll never discover your place in the world, if you’re too afraid to leave your own backyard.” - Nina Guilbeau

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

53. “The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!” - Shannon L. Alder

54. “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

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

56. “Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.” - Ilona Andrews

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

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

59. “Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.” - Dr Roopleen

60. “Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.” - Dr Roopleen

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

62. “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

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

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

65. “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” - bell hooks

66. “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

67. “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

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

69. “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

70. “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

71. “The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do anything, and be anything when we assume full responsibility for ourselves.” - Rachael Bermingham

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

73. “The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD!” - Shannon L. Alder

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

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

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

77. “When we do something we like, we are not only happy. We are also very strong!” - Rossana Condoleo