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201 Best Self Confidence Quotes To Build Your Confidence Back

January 7, 2020

Here are 201 self confidence quotes to build confidence back. We’ve got you covered.

Once in a while, our self confidence tends to take a hit down low. This can be triggered by the tiniest things possible like a pimple on your forehead, to more major incidences such as a fail grade.

Nevertheless, no one enjoys feeling low in self confidence.

The good news is, this happens to everyone whether or not some of us may admit it.

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So do not worry if you run out of confidence juice, we got you covered.

Here are the best 201 self confidence quotes to rebuild confidence and self esteem.

1. “Confidence is when you believe in yourself and your abilities, arrogance is when you think you are better than others and act accordingly.” – Stewart Stafford

2. “Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.” – Richard Kline

3. “Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions; it is governed by our mental attitude.” – Dale Carnegie

4. “The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.” – Blake Lively

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5. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan

6. “We are what we believe we are.” – C.S. Lewis

7. “If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”

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

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9. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – E.E. Cummings

10. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.” – Henry Ford

11. “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

12. “The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.” – James Madison

13. “We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.” – Roderick Thorp

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

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15. “Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.” – Charles Stanley

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

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

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

19. “Self-confidence is the memory of success.” – David Storey

20. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

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21. “He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.” – William Congreve

22. “Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” – Wendy Wasserstein

23. “We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” – Marianne Williamson

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

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

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26. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” – Mark Twain

27. “I’ve had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.” – Dale Earnhardt

28. “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.” – Alan Cohen

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

30. “Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.” – Venus Williams

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Inspiring Self Confidence Quotes

31. “Don’t you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are.” – Jo Blackwell-Preston

32. “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

33. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” – Helen Keller

34. “With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” – Dalai Lama

35. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball

36. “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

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37. “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.” – Mark Victor Hansen

38. “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

39. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” – Mark Twain

40. “Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.” – David Storey

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

42. “Be humble in your confidence yet courageous in your character.” – Melanie Koulouris

43. “You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.” – Zig Ziglar

44. “What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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45. “With confidence, you have won before you have started.” – Marcus Garvey

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46. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Marianne Williamson

47. “The quickest way to acquire self-confidence is to do exactly what you are afraid to do.”

48. “Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey

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49. “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.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

50. “Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.” – Nicole Scherzinger

51. “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.” – Alan Cohen

52. “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

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

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

55. “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers

56. “Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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57. “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.” – Marie Curie

58. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

59. “If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.” – Tim Fargo

60. “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 L. Dew

Best Self Confident Quotes and Sayings

61. “Be humble in your confidence yet courageous in your character.” – Melanie Koulouris

62. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

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

64. “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

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

66. “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

67. “Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.” – Lilly Singh

68. “I found I was more confident when I stopped trying to be someone else’s definition of beautiful and started being my own.” – Remington Miller

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69. “You’re off the Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So…get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss

70. “The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

72. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

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73. “No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, and become a better version of yourself.” – Madonna

74. “Don’t let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self confidence.” – Katori Hall

75. “Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. How can anyone see how great you are if you can’t see it yourself?”

Courage, Self Love and Confidence Quotes

76. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius

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77. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” – Marilyn Monroe

78. “When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.” – Joe Namath

79. “Talk to yourself in the same way you would to someone you love.” – Brene Brown

80. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

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

82. “Your dream doesn’t have an expiration date. Take a deep breath and try again.” – K.T. Witten

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83. “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Swati Sharma

84. “Tell me how a person judges his or her self esteem and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence – and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself – your self-esteem – is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.” – Nathaniel Branden

85. “Confidence is something you create in yourself by believing in who you are.”

More Confidence Sayings and Quotes

86. “Having a low opinion of yourself is not ‘modesty’. It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not ‘egotism’. It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success.” – Bobbe Sommer

87. “Even the greatest were beginners. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.”

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88. “Persons of high self esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.” – Nathaniel Branden

89. “Nothing builds self esteem and self confidence like accomplishment.” – Thomas Carlyle

90. “Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.” – Wayne Dyer

91. “The first place where self esteem begins its journey is within us.” – Stephen Richards

92. “To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don’t have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.” – Jim Rohn

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

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94. “Too many people overvalue what they are not, and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm Forbes

95. “Confidence comes from discipline and training.” – Robert Kiyosaki

96. “Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.” – Mary Kay Ash

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

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98. “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” – Anna Freud

99. “Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.”

100. “Someone else’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” – Les Brown

101. “With confidence you have won before you have started.” – Marcus Garvey

102. “You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.” – Lou Holtz

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

104. “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” – Frederick Douglass

105. “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self Confidence Quotes on Fear

106. “To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.” – Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

107. “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

108. “Be a role model for yourself.”

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

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110. “Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle, or your middle to someone else’s end. Don’t compare the start of your second quarter of life to someone else’s third quarter.” – Tim Hiller

111. “Self-assurance reassures others.” – Garry Willis

112. “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.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

113. “I used to hate feeling embarrassed but then I realized, nobody’s watching and nobody gives a damn.” – Barbara Corcoran

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

115. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer

116. “The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.” – Beyonce

117. “Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.” – Shannon L. Alder

118. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton

119. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel

120. “You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving yourself and see what happens.” – Louise Hay

121. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey

122. “Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.” – Roy T. Bennett

123. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu

124. “Live from the heart of yourself. Seek to be whole, not perfect.” – Oprah Winfrey

125. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Washington Thurman

Empowering Self Confidence Quotes on Faith

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

127. “How strongly you believe you really can will play the biggest part in determining if you actually will.” – Lorri Faye

128. “Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves.”– Carla H. Krueger

129. “We established most of our self-beliefs during our childhood, but they were based on our limited understanding of the world around us. They are either flawed or have become outdated. We can’t take these beliefs at face value anymore.”– Yong Kang Chan

130. “Never let success go to your head, and never let failures go to your heart.”– Anthony Joshua

131. “Believe that you can make your way. Or don’t. Either way, you are right.”– Jennifer Donnelly

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132. “Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.”– Rasheed Ogunlaru

133. “The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

134. “Self respect, self worth, and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.”– Rob Liano

135. “The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it’s your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who’s not full of hate, who’s able to smile and be carefree. So that’s who I have to be.”– C. Joybell C.

136. “Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don’t stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you’ll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river–and you’ll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you.”– Alysha Speer

137. “Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.”– David J. Schwartz

138. “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”– John Joseph Powell

139. “Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.”– Lilly Singh

140. “Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn’t have the time to sit around and talk about you. What’s important to me is not others’ opinions of me, but what’s important to me is my opinion of myself.”– C. Joybell C.

141. “A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews

142. “A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Zen Shin

143. “Stop thinking you’re doing it all wrong. Your path doesn’t look like anybody else’s because it can’t, it shouldn’t, and it won’t.” – Eleanor Brownn

144. “If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”

145. “Put all excuses aside and remember this – you are capable.” – Zig Ziglar

Motivational Self Confidence Quotes on Taking Actions

146. “Action is a high road to self-confidence and self-esteem.” – Bruce Lee

147. “Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Brian Tracy

148. “That was my way of getting through difficult times of low confidence – hard work.” – David Beckham

149. “You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.” – Joe Paterno

150. “When you see it in your head, you gonna see it before your eyes.” – Conor McGregor

151. “What’s the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.” – Terry Bradshaw

152. “If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.” – Criss Jami

153 “Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.” – Arthur Ashe

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154. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

155. “Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.” – Arnold Palmer

156. “I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet one, it’s myself.” – Beyonce

157. “It is she who has enough confidence to define success and failure for herself who succeeds.” – Sophia Amoruso

158. “Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.” – Elie Saab

159. “Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.” – Michelle Obama

160. “It’s okay to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.” – Mandy Hale

161. “I’m a woman, phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, that’s me.” – Maya Angelou

162. “If you live off a man’s compliments, you’ll die from his criticism.” – Cornelius Lindsey

163. “Female inferiority is internalized by us. Women need a lot more confidence.” – Gloria Steinem

164. “For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.” – Sarah Dessen

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

Best Self Confidence Quotes and Believing In Yourself

166. “I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed, you can rule the world.” – Amy Poehler

167. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford

168. “Young man, make your name worth something.” – Andrew Carnegie

169. “When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.” – Caroline Myss

170. “To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.” – Eric Hoffer

171. “When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.” – Shannon L. Alder

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172. “Gaining confidence means getting outside your comfort zone, experiencing setbacks, and, with determination, picking yourself up again.” – Katty Kay (The Confidence Code)

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

174. “Confidence should not be your goal. Improving should.” – Maxime Lagacé

175. “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” – Bertrand Russell

176. “Accept who you are and revel in it.” – Mitch Albom

177. “Overconfidence is a product of ignorance.” – Adam Grant

178. “When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” – African proverb

179. “Confidence is the absence of doubt, not the presence of pride.” – James Pierce

180. “If you enter an action with less than total confidence, you set up obstacles in your own path.” – Robert Greene

181. “To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.” – Criss Jami

182. “I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” – Richard P. Feynman

183. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”

184. “I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.” – Brian Greene

185. “A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.” – Moliere

Body Self Confidence Quotes and Sayings

186. “Confidence must be monitored so that it does not spoil or rot and turn to arrogance.” – John Wooden

187. “Confidence isn’t walking into a room thinking you’re better than everyone, it’s walking in not having to compare yourself to anyone at all.”

188. “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” – Edward Everett Hale

189. “A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Alexander Pope

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190. “Charisma is the ability to project confidence and love at the same time.” – Naval Ravikant

191. “We think confidence causes success, but it’s more often a result of success – mastering something hard or accomplishing something meaningful.” – Adam Grant

192. “What culture triumphs? The culture with the right combination of self-criticism and self-confidence.”

193. “Following tips to improve your confidence is an enormously limited endeavor. It is far more effective to discover why you are not confident to begin with.” – James Pierce

194. “Don’t try to be the most confident person in the room. Try to be the one who worked the most before entering the room.” – Maxime Lagacé

195. “We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.” – Epictetus

196. “If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.” – Nora Roberts

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

198. “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anais Nin

199. “We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.” – Jane Austen

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

201. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein

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