Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Confidence Quotes

"I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway"

Iggy Pop, Musician

"I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"I am Tina Yothers, and I'll never be anyone different"

Tina Yothers, Actress

"Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest"

Hugh Dancy, Actor

"I don't care what anybody thinks"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity"

Michael Bergin, Actor

"Now I have the bravery to do fine things"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence"

Terry Bradshaw, Athlete

"But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club"

Stephan Jenkins, Musician

"I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost"

Christine Baranski, Actress

"I like being unconventional"

Florence Griffith Joyner, Athlete

"All actors are incredibly insecure"

Terence Stamp, Actor

"Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues"

Martha Beck, Author

"No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone"

Martha Beck, Author

"I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, "What?""

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you"

James A. Michener, Novelist

"You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself"

Evel Knievel, Entertainer

"For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"I'm good at everything"

Brett Hull, Athlete

"I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally"

Antoine Fuqua, Director

"I'm very uncomfortable with my body, and I'm not interested in people seeing it on screen"

Alicia Silverstone, Actress

"My choices were never wrong"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices"

Betty Buckley, Actress

"If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"As a teenager, I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties"

Rachel Zoe, Designer

"I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself"

Linda Vester, Entertainer

"I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be"

Oliver Reed, Actor

"I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"Why do you question your ability to do something? From the moment you start questioning your ability to do something, you already put yourself in a box of fear and are not moving forward"

Angélique Kidjo, Musician

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