Top 40 Amy Cuddy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.”

— Amy Cuddy

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2. “Your body language shapes who you are.”

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3. “Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes.”

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4. “Our bodies change our minds, and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes.”

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5. “Our nonverbals govern how other people think and feel about us.”

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6. “When we close ourselves off, we’re not just closing ourselves off to other people, we’re closing ourselves off from ourselves and impeding ourselves. When you open up, you allow yourself to be who you are.”

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7. “When we feel powerful, we’re less self-conscious about expressing our feelings and beliefs, and that frees us to think and do great things.”

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8. “Trust is the conduit for influence; it’s the medium through which ideas travel.”

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9. “I hear from so many women who really started to pay attention to it at all times and stopped, you know, touching their faces and necks and playing with their hair and twisting their legs. I think women become more aware of it when they learn about this stuff, and you see their body language change.”

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10. “A warm, trustworthy person who is also strong elicits admiration, but only after you’ve established trust does your strength become a gift rather than a threat. I’m.”

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11. “In short, our body language, which is often based on prejudices, shapes the body language of the people we’re interacting with.”

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12. “You never figure out how to write a novel; you just learn how to write the novel that you’re on.”

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13. “We don’t rush our words. We’re not afraid to pause. We feel deserving of the time we’re using. We even make more direct eye contact while we’re speaking.”

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14. “Power is generally defined as control over resources and control over access to resources, which often means control over other people because we’re thinking about things like financial resources or shelter, or even love and affection, but we also possess resources that we sometimes can’t access.”

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15. “Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there’s something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas doesn’t mean that you have generally low self-esteem. And you have the power to get yourself out of feeling that way.”

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16. “My primary goal is really to get people to open up and when they feel themselves contracting and collapsing to reduce that, and to know when that happens, “Oh, something’s going on that’s making me feel this way, and if I force my body open a bit, I will feel less powerless.””

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17. “Presence isn’t about pretending to be competent; it’s about believing in and revealing the abilities you truly have. It’s about shedding whatever is blocking you from expressing who you are. It’s about tricking yourself into accepting that you are indeed capable. Sometimes.”

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18. “Presence emerges when we feel personally powerful, which allows us to be acutely attuned to our most sincere selves.”

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19. “Expanding your body language – through posture, movement, and speech – makes you feel more confident and powerful, less anxious and self-absorbed, and generally more positive.”

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20. “True confidence stems from real love and leads to long-term commitment to growth. False confidence comes from desperate passion and leads to dysfunctional relationships, disappointment, and frustration. The.”

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21. “When our body language is confident and open, other people respond in kind, unconsciously reinforcing not only their perception of us but also our perception of ourselves.”

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22. “Powerful people initiate speech more often, talk more overall, and make more eye contact while they’re speaking than powerless people do. When we feel powerful, we speak more slowly and take more time. We don’t rush. We’re not afraid to pause. We feel entitled to the time we’re using.”

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23. “The way you carry yourself is a source of personal power – the kind of power that is the key to presence. It’s the key that allows you to unlock yourself – your abilities, your creativity, your courage, and even your generosity. It doesn’t give you skills or talents you don’t have; it helps you to share the ones you do have. It doesn’t make you smarter or better informed; it makes you more resilient and open. It doesn’t change who you are; it allows you to be who you are.”

— Amy Cuddy

24. “In an early study on power and management, supervisors who felt powerless used more coercive power – threats of punishment or even being fired – when dealing with a “problem worker,” whereas supervisors who felt powerful used more personal persuasion approaches, such as praise or admonishment.26 In another study, managers who felt powerless were more ego-defensive, causing them to solicit less input. In fact, managers who felt powerless judged employees who voiced opinions more negatively.27.”

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25. “A truly confident person does not require arrogance, which is nothing more than a smoke screen for insecurity.”

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26. “After meticulously analyzing videos of 185 venture capital presentations – looking at both verbal and nonverbal behavior – Lakshmi ended up with results that surprised her: the strongest predictor of who got the money was not the person’s credentials or the content of the pitch. The strongest predictors of who got the money were these traits: confidence, comfort level, and passionate enthusiasm.”

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27. “Expanding your body physiologically prepares you to be present; it overrides your instinct to fight or flee, allowing you to be grounded, open, and engaged.”

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28. “A confident person – knowing and believing in her identity – carries tools, not weapons.”

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29. “We convince by our presence,” and to convince others we need to convince ourselves.”

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30. “Anxiety gets sticky and destructive when we start becoming anxious about being anxious. Paradoxically, anxiety also makes us more self-centered, since when we’re acutely anxious, we obsess over ourselves and what others think of us.23.”

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31. “When you are present and available, people have a desire to offer you their authentic self. All you have to do is ask. No one keeps a secret. No one. And they might be resistant initially to telling you something, but eventually they’ll give you their whole life story,” Julianne said. “And it’s because of people’s desire to be seen.”

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32. “He speaks in a deep, calm, resonant voice. He is honest and humble yet confident and strong. He never rushes. He does not fear pauses, and because he doesn’t fear them, neither do we. That’s how presence begets presence.”

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33. “We should be able to attend and respond to others, but focusing on them too much isn’t just counterproductive, it’s also destructive, undermining our self-confidence and interfering with our ability to notice what’s being exchanged in the moment. Even in the imagined power pose condition, people were able to fully inhabit the moment – noticing without judging their environment, feeling neither threatened by nor dominant over the strangers coming in and out of the room.”

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34. “All changes have their melancholy.”

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35. “Presence stems from believing our own stories.”

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36. “Power makes us fearless, independent, and less susceptible to outside pressures and expectations, allowing us to be more creative.”

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37. “I am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness.”

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38. “In a sense, speaking in an unhurried way allows us time to communicate clearly, without runaway social anxieties inhibiting us from presenting our true selves.”

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39. “Those who succeeded did not spend their precious moments in the spotlight worrying about how they were doing or what others thought of them. No spirit under the stairs awaited them, because they knew they were doing their best. In other words, those who succeeded were fully present, and their presence was palpable. It came through mostly in nonverbal ways – vocal qualities, gestures, facial expressions, and so on.”

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40. “Entrepreneurs’ grounded enthusiasm is contagious, stimulating a high level of commitment, confidence, passion, and performance in the people who work for and with them.”

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41. “Virtually everyone can recall a moment when they felt they were being true to themselves, but few can say they always feel that way.”

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42. “It was divine because it was exactly you. It was the very best you – the strongest most generous you.”

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43. “Movement, like posture, tells the brain how it feels and even manages what it remembers. As walking becomes more open, upright, and buoyant, our memories about ourselves follow suit.”

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