Inspirational Self Confidence Quotes

A person with less knowledge and more self-confidence (which is primarily a way of thinking and acting) will often run circles around a person with more knowledge and less self-confidence; which means that self-confidence has the upper hand to knowledge when it comes to acting in the world. It has been interesting to see many of my star academic students struggle with teaching in the real world, while others who were less qualified in the academic field but had more self-confidence have gone out and positively affected many more people through their teaching. ~ Gudjon Bergmann

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

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion. ~ Alice Walker

You aren't ugly, my dear. Do not listen to anyone who would say so, even yourself. ~ Amber Jaeger

We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence. ~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

Confident is spirit of faith ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We live in a society of {more, faster, and extra.} So we feel the need to respond {more, faster, and extra.} Such a useless exercise. So much joy can be found in slowing down. ~ Emily Ley

Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust. ~ Carl Jung

Hold yourself in great esteem. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self confidence plays an important part in every aspect of man's life. ~ Dalai Lama

We are doing ourselves no favors when we look to the crowd to tell us where we are. ~ Erin Loechner

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts. ~ Jean Vanier

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who will accomplish amazing things ~ Veronica Lavallee

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

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. ~ Sheri Dew

For the first time maybe ever, it didn't matter if I looked beautiful or not. I felt it. ~ Kiera Cass

Self-esteem is your capacity to recognize your worth and value, despite your human flaws and weaknesses. Your value as a person isn't earned; it isn't conditional; it can't be added to or subtracted from. Your essential worth is neither greater nor lesser than that of any other human being. It can't be. Self-esteem is about being, not doing. You have worth simply because you're alive. ~ Terrence Real

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

Great soul, great self-esteem. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies. ~ Omega Maverick

The greatest self is the grace to live for your dreams. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Each and every Indian, man or woman, child or Elder, is a spirit-warrior. ~ Leonard Peltier

Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Remember that you are never alone - you are always with yourself. ~ Debasish Mridha

Anything is possible if you're true to yourself. ~ Haresh Sippy

By our ideas on how others 'ought to be' we rob ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. - See beyond the limits of your expectations. ~ Russell Kyle

But if you can't love your-self, you can never love others. And if you never overcome your lack of self- love, you will carry that problem into all your relationships. Plagued by rejection, you will experience conflict with others, you will struggle to set meaningful goals, and you will feel a vague uncertainty about what truly matters. ~ Ken Freeman

The freed self searches for the bright star that unlocks the doors of peace and rebirth. ~ Lorin Morgan-Richards

There is a difference between Confidence and Arrogance..
Both look alike but stem from two very different sources..
One comes from Self Belief and the other comes from Ego.. ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was. ~ Paula Heller Garland

sometimes the quiet ones are yelling on the inside ~ Connor Franta

Your inner Belly Dancer ... is your inner sensuality, your highest feminity, your great esteemed self made more apparent. ~ Leandra J. Kalsy

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

Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn't get better. You get better. ~ Joan Rivers

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will ~ Jack Welch

Arise and shine thy light. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Because you are alive, everything is possible. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

You ought to travel on your own path. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Believing business is easy boosts your self-confidence. ~ Ehab Atalla

To us - richer and cleverer than everyone else! ~ Scott Lynch

I was too hard to decide just what she hated most about [Kyleren]. There were so many thing. She hated his humor. It attacked her without fear. She hated the way he laughed. It was too irresponsible. She hated his smile. Full of confidence, it displayed too much self-assurance. She especially loathed his clarity of mind. His singular obsession with achieving the next objective. Kyleren possessed no ambition, no need to prove himself. It made him predictable, honest, and easy to trust. ~ Amanda Gerry

If someone is counting on children to bring them peace of mind, self-confidence, or a steady sense of happiness, they are in for a bad shock. What children do is complicate, implicate, give plot lines to the story, color to the picture, darken everything, bring fear as never before, suggest the holy, explain the ferocity of the human mind, undo or redo some of the past while casting shadows into the future. There is no boredom with children in the home. The risks are high. The voltage crackling. - Anne Roiphe, Married ~ Esther Perel

The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself. ~ Angela Vallely

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing. ~ William Feather

Time is the most valuable commodity we have to offer the world. Don't be afraid to share. ~ Mark W. Boyer

A happy healthy soul; sacred life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are not impotent. We can choose how we allow circumstances and experiences to influence us. We can change our interpretation of what happened and we can adjust our response to this interpretation. ~ Margaretha Montagu

There will never be another you. The planet desperately needs your unique purpose, passion and presence. ~ Julie Reisler

Before you judge another, ask yourself if what you don't like in them is actually what you don't like in yourself. ~ Joe Vitale

Here's a little secret that's going to save you a LOT of unnecessary grief in life. Are you ready? Your worth is not tied to any person. ~ Mandy Hale

As a child, my clothes were always tailored to be oversized, because I quickly outgrew them and then needed bigger ones. As an adult, I still don't cut my coat according to size ~ Sola Kosoko

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence. ~ Aimee Mullins

Those who care about me will forget me but, those who love me will never let go of me. ~ Oceangirlie14

A butterfly has to be a caterpillar first; allow yourself time to grow. ~ Kaiylah Muhammad

You are the TEACHER. Some people are so stuck on what you did in the past, that they don't realize that you forgave yourself, matured, and graduated from what happened.

Yet here they are stuck on that memory..wondering how you were able to move on. Time waits for no one and life keeps going.

When haters try to remind you of your past, starve their attention with silence..Just realize that you don't have time to supervise adults. You got things to do and individuals to mentor.

What was designed to crush you just strengthened your walk, put confidence in your talk, and encouraged you to be content with You.

Their presence or opinion is only entertainment in the bleachers, tolerated decorations on the wall, and the uncelebrated clown at your events.

Remember you are the teacher and they are the student...take charge of your classroom!! ~ Kendricks Fields

Life is the spirituality of the soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our environment, including the physical body, reflect our inner state - what we are inwardly, our eternal nature. When we renew our mind and transform ourselves, our environment responds to this change automatically. ~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

And so, onwards ... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Confidence is the most important thing, more important than gold or currency. ~ Wen Jiabao

The way you cope/speak with yourself/treat yourself today expresses your self-worth. So, start the day with remembering to whom you belong! ~ Bozena Zawisz

Maybe I'd lost something. Maybe I'd lost a lot - more, even, than I could suffer - but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn't no force on Earth or from above what could make me less. ~ J.D. Jordan

Maybe it's easier to conform, to stay in a job I hate to pay bills of the things I don't even enjoy and marry a man I'm not passionately in love with, whilst surrounded by those who have absolutely no life to their smile but I don't want easy. I never have. I want a life so fucking grande' I reach every little milestone in sweats or tears knowing I Followed what was true to my heart. I don't care if I walk alone for the rest of my days, if it means I get to stay true to myself. ~ Nikki Rowe

Hard work + smart work = eye caching success, shortcut is not ever ~ Chiranjit Paul

Before tomorrow becomes your legacy, come the choices you must make today. ~ Bill Jensen

In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in self-confidence, that in many cases they line themselves up fairly squarely behind the imperial project and that then creates a big vacuum in which the Islamists become the dominant power because they are the only ones then who are seen as resisting. ~ Tariq Ali

Your true personality is not the outer you but the inner you; not the person you present to the world but the person you hide from the world ~ ETC Wanyanwu

Sometimes you have to realise that things will never change if you don't make a change yourself, and sometimes, you need to realise that it only happened so that you could learn something. ~ Charlotte Eriksson

If we are to truly evolve and grow, it's not enough to read about concepts. We must also incorporate them into our lives. Unless they are applied, and unless their worth is verified and validated through personal experience, their influence will be minimal. To really be effective, learning also has to be experiential. ~ Joseph Deitch