Best Confidence Quotes & Sayings To Boost Confidence

Have you ever had a confidence problem before? Maybe someone called you names, made fun of your boots when you were wearing them, or put down your favorite pair of jeans in front of the whole group? 

Sometimes your parents can chip away at it by constantly telling you that enough is enough and it's time for you to stop worrying about fighting those battles in the future. 

You know, confidence is the most important thing a person can have in life. It helps you face the world with ease and live a happy, healthy life. Confidence is the key to success and it comes in many forms.

While some people are born more confident than others, everyone has the potential to gain more confidence. The secret to gaining confidence lies in our mind.

And these confidence quotes and sayings will encourage you and give you the push needed to become a better and more confident person.

What Is Confidence?

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.

Confidence is everything. Confidence is what makes that simple white tee and jeans look good.

Confidence isn’t walking into a room and thinking you are better than everyone else. It is walking in and not needing to compare yourself to anyone.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Confidence is the ability to feel beautiful without needing someone to tell you.

Self-confidence is the memory of success.

Confidence is everything in this business.

Confidence isn’t optimism or pessimism, and it’s not a character attribute. It’s the expectation of a positive outcome.

Confidence is the only key. I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don’t think you can, you won’t.

I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else’s insecurities to be your own.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Confidence is not, ‘They will like me.’ Confidence instead is, ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t..

Confidence is the number one thing I find attractive.

Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you’re confident even when you’re not.

Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.

I think confidence is a true form of beauty.

Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

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

Confidence in the goodness of another is a good proof of one’s own goodness.

Confidence is the only key. I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

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

Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Confidence comes from knowing what you’re doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.

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

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Best Confidence Quotes

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

You yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe deserves your love and affection.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.

I am who I am, not who you think I am. Not who you want me to be. I am me.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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

I will release all the confined forces of my soul and apply them directly to that which I may be. I will release all my thousand possibilities and send them broadside against life.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do… Build, therefore, your own world.

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

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Funny Confidence Quotes

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day.

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

My confidence comes from the daily grind – training my butt off day in and day out.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger fatter shinier acorns, but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

You are no less valuable at a size 16 than a size 4. You are no less valuable as a 32 A than a 32 C.

Be humble, for you are made of dung. Be noble, for you are made of stars.

So you plant your own garden and nourish your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger fatter shinier acorns, but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like.

Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts.

Doubting yourself is like pointing a gun at your motivation.

Short Confidence Quotes

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

If you don’t have any confidence, you’re not going to do anything.

Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

I am me, nothing more, nothing less. And that is enough.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

For me, so far, confidence has been a journey, not a destination.

Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown.

Keep shining, beautiful one. The world needs your light.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

When you have confidence, you can do anything.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.

Put your future in good hands — your own.

Chiefly the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

I may not be perfect but parts of me are awesome.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

We know what we are but know not what we may be.

You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Anything is possible. Anything can be.

Don’t doubt your value. Don’t run from who you are.

I know you tried your hardest and I am proud of that effort.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

I think I can. I know I can.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

We grow great by dreams.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Repeat after me, ‘I can do it

Give it your best.

You are enough.

You are capable.

Body Confidence Quotes

Love your body because you only have one.

When you win, you don’t get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

Take care of your body and your body will take care of you.

Dear Body, you were never a problem. There is nothing wrong with your size… you’re good enough already.

The problem isn’t with your body, the problem is what you think of it.

I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that — even the people I consider flawless — you can start to live with the way you are.

Sexy is not a size… your body is not a battleground. Your value is not measured in pounds.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

I taught myself confidence. When I’d walk into a room and feel scared to death, I’d tell myself, ‘I’m not afraid of anybody.’ And people believed me. You’ve got to teach yourself to take over the world.

I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and in the years to come.

You’re a work of art. Not everybody will understand you, but the ones that do will never forget about you.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it’s game over for everyone else.

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I’m able to do what I want without anybody thinking it’s dumb.

Don’t take anything for granted. If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a little more confidence.

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

We shall be different and we shall love our bodies.

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Self Confidence Quotes

Loving yourself is the greatest revolution.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.

Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you’re doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.

I’ve always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.

Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.

I have a lot of confidence in my game. I love to play with confidence, be aggressive, and that’s just how I’ve always done it.

My style has changed and evolved mainly because I’ve grown to have more confidence in myself.

The most important thing is to have opportunities and feel confidence in yourself.

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

Ten thousand voices say No, but I come in ten thousands multiples of my strength. I am my own affirmative that transcends all negatives and denials. The day renounces me — and I sink my roots deeper into the centuries

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Sometimes, if you fake confidence long enough, you’re going to be confident.

There’s a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn’t anticipate.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

I’m not old enough to play baseball or football. I’m not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren’t going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn’t need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I’ll just hit them out of the park. Then I’ll be able to walk.

I have a lot of confidence in myself, and I love that challenge as well. I love going to every competition as the favorite. It’s something I relish.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Being different isn’t a bad thing. It means you’re brave enough to be yourself.

There is a voice inside of you, that whispers all day long, I feel this is right for me, or I know that this is wrong.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

When you discover your self-worth you will lose interest in anyone who doesn’t see it.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.

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.

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people’s orchards.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I’ve studied the lives of the 20th century’s great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Confidence Quotes For Kids

Children are our most valuable resource.

I was born with confidence in myself and who I am. Even when I was a little kid, I felt that, and I carried it all through my years. I’m 26 now, and I’m still that person. I think every woman needs to have that self-love.

No kid is unsmart. Every kid’s a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

Children are not things to be moulded, but are people to be unfolded.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Children will listen to you after they feel listened to.

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

Confidence Quotes For Girls

To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.

One day I decided that I was beautiful and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. It doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

People always ask me, ‘You have so much confidence. Where did that come from?’ It came from me. One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl… It doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Find what makes you feel comfortable. The confidence you wear your clothes in is what’s really going to shine.

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Confidence Quotes For Woman

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.

As soon. Seek roses in December, ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Belief a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that’s false, before you trust in critics.

Chic is when a woman is in harmony with herself.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful.

It’s all about confidence and how you feel about yourself. There’s no such thing as a perfect woman. I like imperfections – that’s what makes you unique.

The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.

It’s not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we’re not good enough, that we must live up to someone else’s standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

True beauty is the flame of self-confidence that shines from the inside out.

You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflames the heart and enchants the soul.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror. But you are an eternity and you are the mirror.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

Personally, I don’t ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

I think the most attractive thing for me when I meet a guy is confidence and him being comfortable in his own skin. I like someone who doesn’t need approval or validation.

Even when we get frustrated, we still love each other.

No matter what happens, I love you.

Confidence Quotes Bible

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

I do not ask for faith in a God, but give me faith in myself, and then if there is a God I shall do him credit.

I will demand of myself those things that take the measure of my possibilities. Too long I have been chimney-sweep of life, when I might have been sweeping the stardust of Heaven. If one becomes the expression of one’s dominant thought, have I thought dish-water or dew, scullery pans or roses?… Do I think my narrow human life, or do I sometimes think God.

I will live the free-hand life — I will rise up at dawn, and with sure, unfaltering faith, create the day. I will come at noon, and with the assurance of a master, paint the heavens. I will come at night, and with the confidence of one who cannot fail, hang a million stars in the sky.

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.

I will not pray for strength. Dear Heaven, I am a Hercules of disseminated force. I will not pray for the opportunity. Dear Lord, the time and place mines when I am equal to the time and place.

Confidence And Hard Work Quotes

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Nothing is particularly hard if you break it down into small jobs.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream, precedes the goal.

Confidence Boosting Quotes

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

My confidence comes from knowing I do the right things in my life. I do the right things in the gym. I do the right things all together.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.

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

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

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.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous, delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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

Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with an earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his power, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.

Believe In Yourself Confidence Quotes

Believing in yourself and having confidence gives you outer strength.

You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.

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 fulfilment from inside out.

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.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

By being yourself you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

If my mind can conceive it, my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable.

Successful people often exude confidence – it’s obvious that they believe in themselves and what they’re doing. It isn’t their success that makes them confident, however. The confidence was there first.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.​

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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.

Who thinks he will fail — will probably fail. Who believes that dreams are only dreams — will probably find it so. Who doubts himself — will achieve only such results as will confirm it.

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, at whatever cost, must be attained.

You’ve got to put in the work. And you’ve got to play with confidence. You’ve got to believe in yourself.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

More Confidence Quotes

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.

Always be yourself, express yourself have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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