Confidence Quotes and Sayings

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
- Sven Goran Eriksson

Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
- Les Brown

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
- Ansel Adams

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
- Mignon McLaughlin

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.
- Sally Field

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown.
- Author Unknown

Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts.
- Augustus William Hare

I’ve spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart.  Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion.
- Astrid Alauda

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
- Mark Twain

Don’t let anyone steal your dream.  It’s your dream, not theirs.
- Dan Zadra

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
- Michel de Montaigne

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
- Rosalynn Carter

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
- Marcus Garvey

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
- Author Unknown

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
- Oscar Wilde

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
- W.C. Fields

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
- Nicholas de Chamfort

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.
- Mary Kay Ash