Nearly everyone has attacks of insecurity and self-doubt. Gathered from some of the greatest novelists and most successful self-dev authors, the following quotes will help you reclaim your confidence. So, read on—and be brave, be bold, and be your amazing self!
Quotes for When You Need Confidence to Face Your Fears
Overwhelmed? Feeling afraid of what's ahead? These quotes deliver a welcome, reassuring message: "You'll get through this. You got this!"
1. "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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.'" -,
2. "Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid." -,
3. "The coward, then, is a despairing sort of person; for he fears everything,' Aristotle wrote. 'The brave man, on the other hand, has the opposite disposition; for confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.'" -,
4. "What you feel doesn't matter in the end; it's what you do that makes you brave." -,
5. "Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared." -,
6. "What did it matter if something scared you, when it simply had to be done?" -,
7. "I knew that I would have to be brave... really genuinely brave. Brave enough to be quiet when quiet was called for, brave enough to observe before flinging myself into something, brave enough to not abandon my true self when someone else wanted to seduce or force me in a direction I didn't want to go, brave enough to stand my ground quietly." -,
8. "Annabel nodded at her, turning to climb into her own seat, fastening her own harness with the self-assurance of a test pilot on his fiftieth run, rather than someone with no front teeth and a Dora barrette in her hair." -,
9. "No one should deter you from being you. You have to be you. And you can never be afraid to be you." -,
10. "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." -,
Quotes for When You Need Confidence in Your Ability to Succeed
Launching a new business? Changing careers? Going back to school? Whatever your goal, these quotes offer a much-needed reminder: Believing in yourself is critical to achieving it.
11. "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." -,
12. "Realistic thinking is based on what others think is possible, but they are not you and have no way of knowing your potential and purposes." -,
13. "Average people have wishes and hopes. Confident people have goals and plans." -,
14. "'I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting,' he explained. 'I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals—true equals—only when they both have equal confidence.'" -,
15. "Stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way." -,
16. "What matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim." -,
17. "When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things." -,
18. "You are remembered for the rules you break." -,
19. "A bold act requires a high degree of confidence." -,
20. "Don’t be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it." -,
Quotes for When You Need Confidence in Your Own Worth
Reluctant to speak your mind? Worried about being judged—or what others might think? These quotes will give you the confidence to recognize your own value, even if you're a work in progress, and have confidence in your own convictions.
21. "Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves." -,
22. "Stop comparing yourself with others. If they are good at something, you too are good at something else. Self-confidence is not measured by your own capabilities versus that of others, but by your own needs." -,
23. "If you don't get out there and define yourself, you'll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others." -,
24. "I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not." -,
25. "I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others." -,
26. "To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else's." -,
27. "Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic." -,
28. "Without feeling blazing rage or fear or sadness, I had asked for what I wanted. Getting it seemed secondary." -,
29. "Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It's a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman." -,
30. "I remember being twenty-one and thinking that my personality was a solid thing, that me was set in stone, that I would always feel what I felt and believe what I believed. But now I know that me is fluid and shape-changing." -,
31. "Become who you are by learning who you are." -,
32. "I'm not perfect. I'll never be perfect. I don't expect anything to be perfect. But things don't have to be perfect to be strong." -,
33. "Do your thing and don't care if they like it." -,
34. "What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?" -,
35. "As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." -,
Quotes to Celebrate Feeling Confident
Feeling great about yourself? You go! Jubilant and joyful, these quotes capture the power of having the confidence to bask in being you!
36. "She dressed in bohemian clothes, penned novels, panted, and yearned to roam forgotten corners of the world. She was habitually defiant and fearless, and when she felt controlled, as she often did, she could be irresistibly willful." -,
37. "He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light." -,
38. "They loved her because she was an independent spirit, unafraid to speak her mind, passionate, impetuous, and brave." -,
39. "Self-possession, that's what it was. This was someone who knew her own mind, her own worth." -,
40. "And yet she was wholly herself: a rarity." -,
41. "And though she be but little, she is fierce." -,
42. "A queen—a queen who bowed to no one, a queen who had faced them all down and triumphed. A queen who owned her body, her life, her destiny, and never apologized for it." -,
43. "A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep." -,
44. "An empress does not concern herself with the antics of fools." -,
45. "If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect." -,