Motivational Quotes to Increase Your Confidence

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

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

“Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.” Bruce Lee

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Low self-confidence isn’t a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered–just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better.” Barrie Davenport

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

“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.” Golda Meir

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” Arthur Ashe

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

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” Peter T. Mcintyre

“Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.” Richard Bach

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.” Paul Tillich

“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” Thomas Alva Edison

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

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” Brene Brown

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” Dr. Benjamin Spock

“Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.” T. Harv Eker

“You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.” Dr. Robert Anthony

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” Oscar Wilde

“You yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” Buddha

“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.” Dale Carnegie

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

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” Thomas Jefferson

“Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.” Brian Tracy

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” Willie Nelson

“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.” T. Harv Eker

“To anyone that ever told you you’re no good … They’re no better.” Hayley Williams

“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin

“You have no control over other people’s taste, so focus on staying true to your own.” Tim Gunn

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” J.M. Barrie

“It’s a dead-end street if you sit around waiting for someone else to tell you you’re okay.” Michael Pitt

“I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.” Robert Downey, Jr.

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

“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 harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain

“I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?” Goldie Hawn

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

“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

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

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” Wayne Dyer

“Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” Tina Fey

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