Here’s a collection of 48 motivational and inspiring quotes that will instantly boost your self-confidence and self-esteem, making you feel more self-assured and confident in most situations.
1. “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
2. “Always be yourself, express yourself have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee
3. “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin
4. “Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.” – Richard Bach
5. “Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” – Peter T. Mcintyre
6. “Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.” – Richard Kline
7. “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
8. “Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
9. “Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.” – David Storey
10. “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
11. “I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: Turn back.” – Erica Jong
12. “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas Alva Edison
13. “If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” – Rosalyn Smith Carter
14. “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
15. “If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” – Author Unknown
16. “If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.” – Katy Perry
17. “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” – Anna Freud
18. “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
19. “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
20. “Listen to your heart above all other voices.” – Marta Kagan
21. “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
22. “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
23. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
24. “Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.” – Nathaniel Branden.
25. “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” – Arthur Ashe
26. “Self-confidence is the memory of success.” – David Storey
27. “Self-trust is the first secret of success.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. “Someone else’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” – Les Brown
29. “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
30. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
31. “The most important opinion you have is the one you have of yourself, and the most significant things you say all day are those things you say to yourself.” – Unknown Author
32. “The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it.” – Jerry Gillies
33. “The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and self-respect everywhere except within themselves, and so they fail in their search.” – Dr. Nathaniel Branden
34. “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
35. “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” – Dr. Sonya Friedman
36. “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
37. Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.” – Gloria Gaynor
38. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.” – Henry Ford
39. “What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?” – Eleanor Roosevelt
40. “With confidence, you have won before you have started.” – Marcus Garvey
41. “With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” – Dalai Lama
42. “You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.” – Lou Holtz
43. “You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.” – Brene Brown
44. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
45. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy
46. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
47. “Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.” – Robert Collier
48. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
