52 Outstanding Self-Confidence Quotes to Achieve Success
Self-confidence is the key to unlocking success in life. Scientific research proves that those with higher levels of self-confidence achieve greater success than those without it. Striving for a healthy balance of self-confidence is critical - too much or too little can lead to failure.
Recent studies suggest that our genes may play a role in self-confidence. Earlier research believed that self-confidence was solely determined by environmental factors, upbringing, and life experiences.
The good news is that self-confidence can be learned and improved. Although it's not an overnight transformation, with time, effort, and commitment, anyone can increase their self-confidence.
Healthy self-confidence has numerous advantages, including a positive attitude, stronger relationships, better communication, greater resilience, and improved decision-making. These benefits are crucial for achieving success in life.
Here are 52 outstanding self-confidence quotes, chosen carefully, to achieve success:
1.???“We are what we believe we are.” C.S. Lewis
2.???“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”?Theodore Roosevelt
3.???“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot
4.???“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.” Norman Vincent Peale
5.???“Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.” Thomas Carlyle
6.???“Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.” Henry Ford
7.???“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” Samuel Johnson
8.???“Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have."?Brian Tracy
9.???“With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.” Dalai Lama
10.?“You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” Samuel Ullman
11.?“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
12.?“To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” Denis Waitley
13.?“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
14.?“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
15.?“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” Malcolm S. Forbes
16.?“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.”?Theodore Roosevelt
17.?“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
18.?“Someone else’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” Les Brown
19.?“Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.” Diane Sawyer
20.?“When someone you have a lot of respect for believes in you, it helps you believe in yourself.” Cat Osterman
21.?“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”?E.E. Cummings
22.?“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.” Muhammad Ali
23.?“At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey.”?Steve Maraboli
24.?“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”?Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25.?“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
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26.?“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”?Zig Ziglar
27.?“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”?Ralph Waldo Emerson
28.?"If you want confidence, then understand how much you matter to God. If God loves you, who cares what anybody else thinks?"?Rick Warren?
29.?"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."?Helen Keller
30.?“If my mind can conceive it,?My heart can believe it,?I know I can achieve it!” Jesse Jackson
31.?“Our lack of confidence?is not the result of?difficulty.?The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.” Seneca?
32.?“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” Dr. Seuss
33.?"Your self-confidence strengthens as you learn to speak to others, and your whole personality grows warmer and better. This means that you are better off emotionally, and if you are better off emotionally, you are better off physically."?Dale Carnegie
34.?"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." Napoleon Hill.
35.??“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.” Henry David Thoreau
36.?“The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” Author Unknown
37.?“The most important key to the permanent enhancement of esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.” Denis Waitley.
38.?“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
39.??“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” Anna Freud
40.?“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
41. “Confidence comes with practice.” Frank Sonnenberg
42.?"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." Mark Twain
43. "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
44. "Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication." Roger Staubach
45.?“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." M. Scott Peck
46.?“Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
47.?“With confidence, you have won before you have started.” Marcus Garvey
48.?“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” Thomas Alva Edison
49.??“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
50.?“Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.”?Miguel Angel Ruiz
51. “If you stop focusing on all the reasons why you can’t do it, you just may surprise yourself to see what you can do.”?Frank Sonnenberg
52. "Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. Thomas Carlyle
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Sales and Marketing Manager (aroma diffusers/humidifiers/air purifiers)
7 年“Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.” I like this.
海南岛海译之路翻译服务有限公司Land And Sea Translation(LAST) - 经理(Manager)
7 年Very good quotes. I like No.15 best.
CEO at OPOIE, IITea, OOphy
7 年Malika rana
"Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication." Roger Staubach
Global Product Lead @ Amazon Prime Video | INSEAD MBA
7 年Great post. Another good one is "the world makes way for the man that knows where he is going." I do not recall now who said it.