Personal Growth & Self-Improvement: Confidence Quotes

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"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is"

Mae West, Actress

Mae West

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself"

Jack London, Novelist

Jack London

"They are able because they think they are able"

Virgil, Writer

"Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard"

Colin Powell, Statesman

Colin Powell

"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money"

James Madison, President

James Madison

"Perhaps I am stronger than I think"

Thomas Merton, Author

Thomas Merton

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

Marilyn Monroe

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

Norman Vincent Peale

"If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

Chuck Palahniuk

"My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing"

Al Pacino, Actor

Al Pacino

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think"

A. A. Milne, Author

A. A. Milne

"First we have to believe, and then we believe"

Martha Graham, Dancer

Martha Graham

"The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

Alfred Adler

"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course"

Michelangelo, Artist

Michelangelo

"I know what I can do, so I never doubt myself"

Usain Bolt, Athlete

"There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

Tupac Shakur

"The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud"

Paula Cole, Musician

Paula Cole

"I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

Charlie Sheen

"If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can"

Serena Williams, Athlete

Serena Williams

"We all self-conscious, I'm just the first to admit it"

Kanye West, Musician

Kanye West

"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are"

Bill Shankly, Athlete

Bill Shankly

"Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be"

Layne Staley, Musician

Layne Staley

"It just seemed so odd as people had never commented on my body before. Every woman obsesses over her figure, but I was happy, I felt sexy - I never thought about it. I know this sounds naive, but I honestly never expected this kind of attention"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

"Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

Arne Jacobsen

"I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?"

Joan Baez, Musician

"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

Ingrid Bergman

"Be yourself. The world worships the original"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

Ingrid Bergman

"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own"

Aulus Persius Flaccus, Poet

"You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work, and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well"

Jennifer Capriati, Athlete

"I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn't bother me. I see all the people walking around nude; it doesn't bother me"

Ursula Andress, Actress

Ursula Andress

"Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning"

Anthony Trollope, Author

Anthony Trollope

"I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness"

Giorgio Armani, Designer

Giorgio Armani

"Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's"

Deborah Tannen, Sociologist

Deborah Tannen

"A truly strong person does not need the approval of others, any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep"

Vernon Howard, Author

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