15 quotes about confidence.
Exuding confidence is magnetic. It’s a superpower. It shows that you don’t doubt yourself, have a strong sense of security, and you trust yourself.
Confidence is important because it impacts all aspects of your personal and professional life. In your personal life, confidence will help you set boundaries with the people you surround yourself with. If you feel like a friend or your partner is not treating you right, you can only stick up for yourself if you are confident. In your professional life, confidence will help you spearhead projects independently, as well as execute them effectively. Not only will you challenge yourself, but your employer will appreciate your eagerness for streamlining any time pressing tasks.
Ultimately, confidence is an extremely important quality to have. It will make you a much more positive person, as well as help you make judicious decisions, improve your personal relationships, and earn you respect.
Take a look at the fifteen quotes below. Internalize and reflect. Ask yourself how the advice below can help you improve your confidence level.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember--the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you."
- Zig Ziglar
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.”
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
- Dale Carnegie
"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it."
- Robert Anthony
"I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done."
- Robert Downey Jr.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance."
- Bruce Barton
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
- Arthur Ashe
"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
"The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that which we have in others."
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
"Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her."
- Laozi
"Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered--just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better."
- Barrie Davenport