Self Confidence Quotes - Help Raise Your Spirits

Self Confidence Quotes

What follows are various self confidence quotes to help lighten the mode but also to offer insight and encouragement.

There are many quotes on confidence and quotes about confidence available elsewhere. Here I hope these self confidence quotations help you in your quest to boost your self confidence and/or provide a few moments of wisdom and insight into life.

I hope you enjoy them and benefit from them.


Self Confidence Quotations

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt.

It needs courage to be afraid. Michel de Montaigne

The better part of valor is discretion. William Shakespeare

Fortune favors the brave. Terence

Self trust is the essence of heroism. Emerson

As is our confidence, so is our capacity. William Hazlitt

Assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self knowledge. George Santayana

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money. Tristan Bernard

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. Dr Thomas Fuller

They can do all because they think they can. Vergil

A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses. Japanese proverb

In the kingdom of hope there is no winter. Russian proverb

There are many preachers who don't hear themselves. German proverb


From my notebooks:

The following are taken from my notebooks. They will I hope complement the quotations given above as well as reveal a little more about my life and my thinking about life.

Some are idle thoughts and comments on life and the life we lead. Others could one day be developed further into articles or reports. I feel that they are related to the 'self confidence quotes' theme.


Self confidence quotes - from my notebooks

Always believe you're able. You ARE given the strength for a just act. You will find or be given the grace.

Get yourself out of your comfort zone. Get to know yourself and being resilient.

Stand up for yourself. If you don't. … If you don't respect yourself, who else will.

Being self conscious is fine at the beginning - but now you feel more comfortable with yourself - you will be less so as confidence grows.

A smile banishes darkness. It shows off the heart, shows relaxation, shows friendliness, shows you in your best light.

Get animated. Allow yourself. Express yourself. Let your self express what and how you really feel. Be fair and honest and you will be respected for it.

Trust yourself and have confidence in yourself.

Don't lose hope - recapture that little spark of life you both had and felt.We can all have our weaker moments, when we are tested and found wanting, lose our faith and perspective.

An army may march on its stomach, but it works best when acting as a team. Working with all the elements together, and as one in a common cause. The same is true for you.

Cynical. Life can push us around. Things can go right or get waylaid or stranded at times. Our outlook can change. We need to snap out of this way of fussy thinking.

Independent. Independence is the mark of the individual. Good use of independence is the mark of the rounded individual.

Taking stock. Assessing your life. Analyzing has a part to play but don't be overwhelmed by it or diverted into a wild storm of thought, possibilities and confusion.

Dedicated. What is your dedication like? Examine yourself. What are your strengths, or your weaknesses? Hone your strengths. Put effort into your weaknesses. But don't beat yourself up. Strive to be a better you - and you will.

Attitude. Develop the right attitude. See life as a learning experience. There will be ups and downs, but there will also be joy, happiness and a sense of achievement by striving to be the best you can be.


I hope you have enjoyed this 'self confidence quotes' page, and enjoy the rest of the website. Martin

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