Quotes about confidence

Welcome to our Confidence collection, a celebration of self-assurance, empowerment, and the transformative impact of believing in oneself. In this curated compilation of quotes, we delve into the powerful realm of confidence, where inner strength and positivity illuminate the path to personal growth and success.

Confidence is the key that unlocks our potential, allowing us to embrace challenges and seize opportunities with unwavering belief. Our Confidence quotes celebrate the beauty of self-assuredness, reminding us that when we radiate confidence, we inspire others and shape our own destiny.

Whether you're seeking to boost your self-esteem, looking for insights into building authentic confidence, or simply interested in exploring the transformative power of a positive mindset, these quotes offer perspectives on the profound impact of confidence.

Embark on a journey of self-discovery, empowerment, and authenticity. Explore the role of self-belief in achieving goals, the strength that emerges from embracing your unique qualities, and the empowering ripple effect that confidence can have on every aspect of your life.

Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara
Actress
Beauty is really all about confidence. If you feel beautiful, then you are beautiful.
Erika Christensen
Erika Christensen
Film actress
To be entirely honest, I am an extremely confident person, and I don't think I would have gotten into this business if I felt that I wasn't going to succeed and I intend to be in this business, for the rest of my life.
Paul Halmos
Paul Halmos
Influential Mathematician & Educator
When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.
Harvey Mackay
Harvey Mackay
Business Guru & Motivational Speaker
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Iconic James Bond Actor
You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
M. F. K. Fisher
M. F. K. Fisher
Pioneering Food Writer
Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.
Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin
Musician
And when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet.
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell
American actor, comedian, producer, and writer
I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!
Blake Lively
Blake Lively
American actress, model, director, and advocate
What can I say? I feel good when I'm wearing heels. I feel sexier, attractive.
Witney Carson
Witney Carson
American professional Latin ballroom dancer and choreographer
My family especially has always taught me to be myself and not let other people's opinions change me. To always believe my instincts and follow my heart.
Jimmy Dore
Jimmy Dore
American comedian, political commentator, and YouTube personality
I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing
Ciara
Ciara
American singer
Being beautiful is all in the attitude, it's about confidence.
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire
American country music singer, actress and businesswoman
You know, I can get kind of spunky or I can get tough, you know, that kind of tough, sexy look. But sexy? No, I don't think so.
Chris Algieri
Chris Algieri
American professional boxer and former kickboxer
The hard work is done. The training is done. I'm not gonna say too much.
Regina Belle
Regina Belle
American singer-songwriter
I want to be who I am now. I rock my gray hair because it is a blessing. I colored mine for many years, but I've gotten compliments from so many men and women about being brave enough to sport the gray. I even wear it on the cover of my record. I am comfortable in my skin and I want listeners to feel that as well.
Gabrielle Bernstein
Gabrielle Bernstein
New York Times Bestselling author, motivational speaker, spiritual leader, and podcast host
All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you're seeking is already within you.
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent
French fashion designer
When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.
Gary Larson
Gary Larson
American cartoonist, environmentalist, and former musician
I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian-American actor, former bodybuilder, film producer, businessman, and former politician
Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure.
Charles Stanley
Charles Stanley
American Clergyman
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Dunst
American actress and model
I've always had a process that I do before I even get to set or go to the location. I work privately, and it almost feels like therapy between me and who I'm playing. So I have this inner life that's there and it gives me a confidence, too, that when I'm playing the role I know every question.
Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper
American actor and filmmaker
I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.
Bonnie Wright
Bonnie Wright
English actress, model, director, and activist
I remember being cast in the first "Harry Potter" film and being quite amused, because I was imagining that someone who'd been acting since they'd been crawling would be cast. The faith and trust that they'd put into everyone actually enabled you to gain confidence back, in the sense of feeling that sense of achievement, which is incredibly hard when you're young.
Jon Hamm
Jon Hamm
American actor and producer
You have to have a hell of a lot of confidence in what you're doing.
Alice Temperley
Alice Temperley
English fashion designer
Clothes can transform your mood and confidence.
Demi Lovato
Demi Lovato
American singer, songwriter, and actor
Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.
Denise Austin
Denise Austin
American fitness instructor, author, and columnist, and a former member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
Nothing can be achieved without hope or confidence. Be sure you always have both!
Ann Landers
Ann Landers
Columnist
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Cathy Freeman
Cathy Freeman
Australian former sprinter, who specialized in the 400 metres event
I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.
Alli Simpson
Alli Simpson
Host, singer, actress, dancer, model and business.
Make your world extraordinary! Step out into this world with confidence and treasure yourself.
Andre Benjamin
Andre Benjamin
American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer
Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, i guess, what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what people call “nerds” and they're cool because they know they're needs. They know what they are and they're so confident in knowing what they are that that makes them cool, and somebody aspires to be like them because they're fine with it. it's confidence, you know.
Clancy Brown
Clancy Brown
American film actor
It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
Albert Benjamin Simpson
Founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
A Fine Frenzy
A Fine Frenzy
American singer, songwriter, actress, and music video director
I do consider myself an actress now. I think Dig and Transparent have given me the confidence. I've been working as an actress, it's something that I have to continue to earn, but I do feel like it's a part of me. It's something that I love, and to not acknowledge it would be false.
Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer
American Golfer
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
Bethany Mota
Bethany Mota
American video blogger
I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.
Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara
Canadian singer-songwriter
There's something so beautiful in a woman who loves her body and is confident.
Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace
Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessman
Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
Aisling Bea
Aisling Bea
Irish actor, stand-up comedian and writer
Don't be afraid to look silly. You are only holding yourself back if you are afraid of looking silly or failing.
Charles Leclerc
Charles Leclerc
Monégasque racing driver, currently racing in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari. Leclerc won the GP3 Series championship in 2016 and the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2017
Every time you go back to winning, or to the good results, you take back the confidence in yourself and you feel a lot better.
Alanna Ubach
Alanna Ubach
American actress
If a woman is comfortable with herself, I think that's what radiates. I think the moment you start questioning your body and looks is when you get into trouble.
Alber Elbaz
Alber Elbaz
Israeli fashion designer
One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.
Florence Welch
Florence Welch
English Musician
You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe
American Tennis Player
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Bernard Arnault
Bernard Arnault
French Businessman
What I love is to win. What I love is being number one.
Amy Grant
Amy Grant
American Musician
I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life.
Adriel Jeremiah Green
Adriel Jeremiah Green
American Football Player
I think what pushes me every day is that I'm so afraid to fail. I think it comes from what I went through in school growing up and not being great in the classroom and having to work harder than everybody else.
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
British Actress
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football player
Sometimes you find success and sometimes you don’t, but my satisfaction is knowing I’ll always control my effort with my own two hands.
Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara
Actress
Listen, I'm not afraid of anything. I'm Colombian.
Paul Halmos
Paul Halmos
Influential Mathematician & Educator
Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided.
Harvey Mackay
Harvey Mackay
Business Guru & Motivational Speaker
It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it. It only matters if you say you can't.
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Iconic James Bond Actor
I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell
American actor, comedian, producer, and writer
I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself.
Ciara
Ciara
American singer
I think it takes a lot of confidence to be comfortable in being vulnerable.
Chris Algieri
Chris Algieri
American professional boxer and former kickboxer
The judges are much closer to the action than the fans are. Fans sure can sway the way a fight looks. I am confident in the ability of the judges and if I do what I need to do and things go the way that we plan, we will come out with the victory regardless of the fan support.
Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Dunst
American actress and model
Confidence is very sexy. You could be not cute at all and have such confidence.
Jon Hamm
Jon Hamm
American actor and producer
It's such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence and lack of confidence on the fact that people either choose you or don't.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian-American actor, former bodybuilder, film producer, businessman, and former politician
Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.
Blake Lively
Blake Lively
American actress, model, director, and advocate
The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
Ann Landers
Ann Landers
Columnist
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Cathy Freeman
Cathy Freeman
Australian former sprinter, who specialized in the 400 metres event
I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.
Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer
American Golfer
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent
French fashion designer
I had noticed men were much more confident in their clothes. So I sought through trouser suits, trench coats, tuxedos, and pea coats to give women the same confidence.
Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace
Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessman
I never fall down. I always fight.
Charles Leclerc
Charles Leclerc
Monégasque racing driver, currently racing in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari. Leclerc won the GP3 Series championship in 2016 and the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2017
That first victory, before you get to it, it always seems so far ahead. You're not sure whether you can make it or not. Once you do, obviously it's a relief, but it also helps you to then deal better once you are in the lead of a race.
Alber Elbaz
Alber Elbaz
Israeli fashion designer
Women try to be the best everywhere, and it's impossible. I want my clothes to give women the freedom to just be - I want them to put on my dresses and shine.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football player
It’s not about the car your drive. It’s about the size of your arm hanging out of the window.
Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara
Actress
Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others more attracted to them.
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Iconic James Bond Actor
I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell
American actor, comedian, producer, and writer
There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.
Chris Algieri
Chris Algieri
American professional boxer and former kickboxer
I have the talent and the tools to win.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian-American actor, former bodybuilder, film producer, businessman, and former politician
When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent
French fashion designer
I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.