Quotations about Confidence

Nobody 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


Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.  ~Author Unknown


Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven.
~William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well


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.  ~Author Unknown


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, Rainbow Drive


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


Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  ~Wendy Wasserstein


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


I am not a has-been.  I am a will be.  ~Lauren Bacall


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., "An Exceptional View of Life," quoted in Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen, 1993


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


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, Diary, 1969


Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.  ~Richard Bach, Illusions


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


The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.  ~Paul Tillich


Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.  ~Michel de Montaigne