Confidence Quotes and Sayings

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others.
- Mark Twain

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
- Martin Luther

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.
- Allen H. Neuharth

Never dull your shine for somebody else.
- Tyra Banks

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Author Unknown

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
- Author Unknown

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Alva Edison

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs.  Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
- E.F. Schumacher

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
- John Powell

Don’t let people drive you crazy when you know it’s in walking distance.
- Author Unknown

If I am not for myself, who will be?
- Pirke Avoth

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
- Jesse Jackson

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.
- Henry Ford

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.
- Robert Brault

Life marks us all down, so it’s just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
- Mignon McLaughlin

It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
- Sally Kempton