Gaining confidence is something we can all relate to. Learning how to feel confident within ourselves, face our fears, and speak up for ourselves allow us to experience life with a newfound sense of empowerment.

To help us on this journey, we present 100 inspiring quotes about the confidence that can motivate and guide us on our paths toward self-acceptance and boldness.

These quotes were collected from famous people – authors, philosophers, entrepreneurs – who have experienced their own struggles with dealing with self-doubt and fear.

Use their wisdom as a source of strength, so that you too can reach your full potential in life.

1. The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. -J. M. Barrie
2. Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don’t think you can, you won’t. -Jerry West
3. Confidence is a very fragile thing. -Joe Montana
4. Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill
5. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. -Laozi
6. The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one. -Elbert Hubbard
7. Confidence comes from discipline and training. -Robert Kiyosaki
8. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
9. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. -Mark Twain
10. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. -Rosalynn Carter
11. Humor comes from self-confidence. -Rita Mae Brown
12. When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t. -Jodi Picoult
13. Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. -John Dewey
14. Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess. -Sabrina Carpenter
15. We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. -Robert Breault
16. I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. ­­-­Maya Angelou
17. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. -David Brinkley
18. We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. ­-Marie Curie
19. The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. -William Jennings Bryan
20. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. -Theodore Roosevelt
21. 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
22. Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect…Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful. ­-Mark Victor Hansen
23. 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
24. Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. -Laozi
25. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. -Lucille Ball
26. Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. -David Storey
27. If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. -Thomas Alva Edison
28. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29. Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. -Christopher Robin
30. Self-belief is not self-centered. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves. -Carla H. Kruege
31. When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. –Willie Nelson
32. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -John Wooden
33. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. –Helen Keller
34. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. ­­-Bernard Baruch
35. You yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe deserves your love and affection. – Buddha
36. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. -E.E Cummings
37. Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have. –Brian Tracy
38. When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it’s game over for everyone else. -Jason Day
39. You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it. –Dr. Robert Anthony
40. 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 Kubler-Ross
41. 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
42. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. ­-Paul Tournier
43. Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love. –Brene Brown
44. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. -Bell Hooks
45. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, and how we perform, is truly important to other people. –Andre Dubus
46. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. -Carl Jung
47. It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures. –Oprah Winfrey
48. We gain strength and courage, and confidence through each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face … we must do that which we think we cannot. -Eleanor Roosevelt
49. Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. –Peter T. McIntyre
50. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. -Arthur Ashe
51. Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. –Golda Meir
52. Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions… Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it. -Tina Fey
53. You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. –Eleanor Roosevelt
54. Make the most of yourself, for that, is all there is of you. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it. –Bruce Lee
56. 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
57. Confidence is everything. Confidence is what makes that simple white tee and jeans look good. -Ciara
58. The important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. -Arthur Ashe
59. To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence. -Roy T. Bennett
60. With the realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world. –Dalai Lama
61. Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. -Helen Keller
62. Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. –David Storey
63. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. ­­-Bernard Baruch
64. Confidence is preparation.  Everything else is beyond your control. –Richard Kline
65. I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. -Louisa May Alcot
66. Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be. -Avril Lavigne
67. Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. –Wendy Wasserstein
68. Successful people often exude confidence – it’s obvious that they believe in themselves and what they’re doing. It isn’t their success that makes them confident, however. The confidence was there first. -Travis Bradberry
69. Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it. –Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
70. It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it. ­­-Lillian Hellman
71. You have to expect things from yourself before you can do them. –Michael Jordan
72. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy. -Dale Carnegie
73. You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it. -Robert Anthony
74. Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day. -Sophocles
75. The more validation I need, the less discernment I have. -Kurt Hanks
76. Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. -Coco Chanel
77. You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. -Eleanor Roosevelt
78. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. ­- Paul Tournier
79. When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. -Joe Namath
80. You have to expect things from yourself before you can do them. -Michael Jordan
81. A diamond doesn’t start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I’m that diamond. -Solange Nicole
82. Trust yourself–you know more than you think you do. -Benjamin Spock
83. You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. -Chris Evert
84. Trust yourself–you know more than you think you do. -Benjamin Spock
85. Don’t be satisfied with stories, and how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. -Rumi
86. She remembered who she was and the game changed. -Lalah Delia
87. In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. -Carter G. Woodson
88. Accept who you are; and revel in it. -Mitch Albom
89. As is our confidence, so is our capacity. -William Hazlitt
90. The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead. -Bette Davis
91. Confidence is contagious. So is a lack of confidence. -Vince Lombardi
92. When you have confidence, you can do anything. -Sloane Stevens
93. If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it! -Jesse Jackson
94. Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don’t think you can, you won’t. -Jerry West
95. Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. -Coco Chanel
96. Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. -George Herbert
97. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. -Henry David Thoreau
98. Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. -Robert Staubach
99. You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. -Chris Evert
100. The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence. -Blake Lively

It’s been said that confidence is the key to success. With the many quotes about confidence, it’s easy to see why.

By believing in ourselves and taking a risk, we can achieve our dreams. If we take on each opportunity with gusto and don’t worry about stepping out of our comfort zone, amazing things await us.

Let these quotes be a reminder that if we remain ambitious and have faith in our abilities, anything is possible!