Thursday, August 2, 2012

Confidence Quotes


I hope these quotes give you inspiration and the courage to keep moving forward!
Maria

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


It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. 

Sally Field


A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. 

David Brinkley


It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. 

Hanoch McCarty



We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt



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


It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W.C. Fields


Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Henry Ford


I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
Allen H. Neuharth


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







Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Buckminster Fuller


Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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 Kübler-Ross


Success comes in cans, not cant's.
Author Unknown


Put your future in good hands - your own.
Author Unknown


What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.
John Bunyan


The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief.
Shawn Purvis


I'm not old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk.
Edward J. McGrath, Jr.


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

Author Unknown

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

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


Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anaïs Nin


Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. 

Richard Bach


You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. 

Michael Jordan


It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. 

Edmund Hillary


Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. 

Mark Twain


Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton


A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. 

Sydney Smith


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


Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. 

Norman Vincent Peale


Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. 

Author Unknown



People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. 

Sa'Di



When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. 

Cecil Selig


Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. 

Les Brown


You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss


Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. 

Richard Kline


Knock the "t" off the "can't." 

Samuel Johnson


Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.  Sophia Loren


They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.  Christian Bovee


We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. 

Mignon McLaughlin


Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

Zig Ziglar


Your value is the product of your thoughts. Do not miscalculate your self worth by multiplying your insecurities. 

Dodinsky


If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. 
Henrik Ibsen


Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. 

Robert Brault


Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. 
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. 

Henry Stanley Haskins


The horizon, to remind you of your courage, sends its gentle waves of confidence to kiss your feet. 

Dodinsky


Never dull your shine for somebody else. 
Tyra Banks


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


Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. 

Max L. Forman


Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.  William Shakespeare


I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. 

Anaïs Nin


Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. 

Ram Dass


Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. 

Michel de Montaigne


If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits. 

Don Ward


It's me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence.
Paula Cole


The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. 

Andrew Carnegie


Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. 

Mignon McLaughlin


A gold medal is a nice thing - but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.  From Cool Runnings


Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. 

Dan Zadra


If I am not for myself, who will be?

Pirke Avoth


All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.  Charles Dickens


We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

Robert Brault


Self-love seems so often unrequited. 
Anthony Powell


Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. 

Mignon McLaughlin


What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.  Henry David Thoreau


There are offences given and offences not given but taken. 

Izaak Walton


Do not doubt the goodness in you. It is inappropriate. 

Dodinsky


Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare


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


A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
John Powell


Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Veronica A. Shoffstall


It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.  Epicurus


If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Nicholas de Chamfort


I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott


How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.
Robert Brault



Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.  Jean Sibelius


When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. 

African Proverb


The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.

Author Unknown


Be proud to wear you. 

Dodinsky


Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. 
Nicholai Velimirovic


Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. 

Thomas à Kempis


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

André Dubus


Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. 

Francis Bacon


God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. 

Author Unknown


All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies." 

Author Unknown


The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. 

Sonya Friedman


We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree - deeply rooted to withstand all of life's upheavals. 

Dodinsky


Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them. 

Alexi Konstantinovich Tolstoy


Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
Karen Ravn


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. Your 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. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. 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

2 comments:

  1. Dear Nazeur

    Thanks so much. Glad you liked the quotes!

    Maria

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  2. I think these quotes are very inspirational. Really enjoyable confidence quotes. Thanks for sharing!!

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