Confidence Quotes and Sayings

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

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

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and long honourable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

However gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.

Self confidence is the key to the universe.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

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

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

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

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

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

Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It’s so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents.

Don’t let people drive you crazy when you know it’s in walking distance.

Put your future in good hands – your own.

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

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

Even if you haven’t encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can’t bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a magnet in the best sense of the word. It will draw people to you and make your daily life.. and theirs.. a lot more pleasant.

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

Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.

The old saying that “success breeds success” has something to it. It’s that feeling of confidence that can banish negativity and procrastination and get you going the right way.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.