Some Wonderful Quotes on Confidence

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

~Richard Bach, Illusions

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

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

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

~Paul Tillich

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

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

~Ellen Goodman

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

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

~Paula Cole, "Me," This Fire

If I am not for myself, who will be?

~Pirke Avoth

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, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

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

~Henry David Thoreau

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

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

~Thomas à Kempis

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

~Olin Miller

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

~Lou Holtz and John Heisler, The Fighting Spirit

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

~Sonya Friedman

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

~E.F. Schumacher

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

~Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961