Top 200 Confidence Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.”

— Nora Roberts

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2. “You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”

— Lou Holtz

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3. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”

— Confucius

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4. “Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.”

— Taylor Swift

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5. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Business Quotes, Action Quotes

6. “If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ”

— Marcus Garvey

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7. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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8. “Knock the ‘t’ off the ‘can’t.’”

— Samuel Johnson

9. “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”

— Vince Lombardi

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10. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”

— Brian Tracy

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11. “Believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.”

— Brené Brown

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12. “I know who I am, I know what I believe, that’s all I need to know. From there, you do what you need to do.”

— Will Smith

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

13. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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14. “If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.”

— Katy Perry

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Performance Quotes

15. “My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”

— Pablo Picasso

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16. “There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”

— Samuel Johnson

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17. “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

— Bertrand Russell

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18. “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”

— George Washington

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19. “Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”

— Zig Ziglar

20. “The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

Also featured in: Positive Motivational Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Positive Mindset Quotes

21. “Self-trust is the first secret of success.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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22. “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

— Helen Keller

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23. “Perhaps I am stronger than I think.”

— Thomas Merton

Also featured in: Being Strong Quotes

24. “Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

25. “Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.”

— Paul Tournier

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26. “Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”

— Erich Fromm

27. “The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes, Achievement Quotes

28. “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

— Louisa May Alcott

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29. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don’t have strength.”

— Napoleon

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30. “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

31. “The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.”

— Nhat Hanh

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32. “Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”

— Jim Rohn

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33. “Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.”

— Brian Tracy

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34. “Fortune befriends the bold.”

— Emily Dickinson

35. “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

— Anna Quindlen

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Self-Care Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Identity Quotes

36. “The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.”

— Madonna

37. “The eyes of others are our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”

— Virginia Woolf

38. “Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”

— Michel de Montaigne

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes

39. “Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”

— Woody Allen

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40. “You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.”

— Max Lucado

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41. “You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Self-Worth Quotes

42. “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

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Competition Quotes, Basketball Quotes, Football Quotes

43. “Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.”

— Jack Welch

Also featured in: Professional Growth Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Helping Quotes, Quotes About People

44. “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.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Impact Quotes

45. “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Wellness Quotes

46. “I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Inspirational Business Quotes, Impossible Quotes

47. “Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.”

— T. Harv Eker

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Fear Quotes, Doubt Quotes

48. “I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

49. “Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Stay Positive Quotes

50. “People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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