Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Confidence Quotes

Danielle Brooks, Actress

"You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody"

Natasha Lyonne, Actress

"If you don't believe, you cannot win"

Stan Wawrinka, Athlete

"Confidence comes with matches. You need to win matches to feel better"

Stan Wawrinka, Athlete

"Next time you're feeling like a task or project is particularly difficult, ask yourself, 'What would it look like if I were really confident at this?' Just by asking yourself the question, you'll visualise yourself confidently approaching the task at hand. The switch has been flipped"

Ali Abdaal, Entrepreneur

"I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me"

GG Allin, Musician

"I think what I do is positive, in its own way"

GG Allin, Musician

"Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special"

Ariana Grande, Actress

"You don't have to play dress-up to be a princess. Princess is a state of mind"

Meghan Markle, Actress

"If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste"

Stan Sakai, Cartoonist

"You get confidence with wins"

Dave Rose, Coach

"I'm high maintenance, but I'm worth it"

Lara Logan, Journalist

"I don't mind not being cool"

Chris Martin, Musician

"I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am"

Willa Ford, Musician

"If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love"

Rollo Armstrong, Musician

"I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive"

Barbara Cook, Musician

"I guess I'm too outspoken"

Sharon Tate, Actress

"I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do"

Lauren Alaina, Musician

"I'm taking my time. I feel much more confident, and every day I feel like I'm getting better"

Miguel Cabrera, Athlete

"I am in control at all times"

GG Allin, Musician

"It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna, so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly"

Evanna Lynch, Actress

"Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity"

Dorothy Sarnoff, Musician

"When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable"

Ted Kotcheff, Director

"My voice is stronger today than ever"

Shania Twain, Musician

"Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that.' If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too"

Monique Coleman, Actress

"Nobody can push me aside"

Rajendra Prasad, Statesman

"I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside... I'm really a shy guy"

Milo Ventimiglia, Actor

"I could really care less about what they think about me, but at the same time, I do have something to prove"

Bobby Brown, Musician

"I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered"

Kirsty Gallacher, Entertainer

"With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice"

Pat Benatar, Musician

"I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world"

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician

"You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable"

Tom Wilkinson, Actor

"When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued"

Julia Margaret Cameron, Photographer

"I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me, and so when I hit the stage, I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it"

Nick Nolte, Actor

"What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact"

Jerome Richardson, Musician

"You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself"

Vince Vaughn, Actor

"I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time"

Portia de Rossi, Actress

"Cause I won't repeat myself, the way I dress and look"

Kelly Lynch, Actress

"I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy"

Kurt Masur, Musician

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