50 motivational thoughts to boost self-confidence

1) “The way to develop self-confidence is to do what you are afraid of and keep the memory of successful experiences from your past (William Jennings Bryan)

2) “If you have a voice inside you that says you cannot paint, then by all means you have to paint and that voice will be silenced (Van Gogh)

3) Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Don’t go looking for a successful personality and try to duplicate him (Bruce Lee)

4) “Don’t expect everything to be right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and imperfect conditions. And? Start now. With every step you take, you will get stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.” (Mark Victor Hansen)

5) “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how little they do” (Eleanon Roosevelt)

6) “Low self-confidence is not a sentence for life. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced and mastered – just like any other skill. Once you master it, your whole life will change for the better” (Barrie Davenport)

7) “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous satisfaction, or any other experience that reveals the human spirit” (EE Cummings)

8) “Trust in yourself. Create the kind of being that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by twisting every little possibility into the flames of fulfillment” (Golda Meir)

9) “An important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation” (Arthur Ashe)

10) “To be yourself in a world that is constantly wanting you to be something else is a great accomplishment” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

11) It’s confidence in our bodies, minds and spirit that allows us to keep looking for new adventures (Oprah Winfrey)

12) “Failure has to be an option in art and exploration – because it is a lack of faith. No activity that requires innovation has been done without risk. You have to be willing to take these risks… (James Cameron)

13) “People are like stained glass windows. They shine when the sunlight is out, but when the darkness, in its beauty, is revealed, there is light only if there is from within (Elisabeth Kubler Ross)

14) “Confidence comes not from always being right but from not being afraid to be wrong” (Peter T. Mcintyre)

15) “Fight against your limitations and you will surely conquer them” (Richard Bach)

16) “The courage to be is the courage to accept yourself, even if it is unacceptable” (Paul Tillich)

17) “If we did all that we are really capable of doing, we would literally be amazed” (Thomas Edison)

18) “Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, the belief that the way we appear, the way we behave, is really important to other people” (Andre Dubos)

19) “Our greatest fear is not that we are incapable. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, attractive, talented, and amazing?” In fact, who are you not to be all that?…Playing small doesn’t help the world. There’s nothing brilliant about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” (Nelson Mandela)

20) “Talk to yourself like you would talk to someone you love” (Brene Brown)

21) “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you know” (Dr Benjamin Spock)

22) “Successful people are afraid. Successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings paralyze them ′′ (T. Harv Eker)

23) “You can have anything you want, as long as you abandon the belief that you can not have” (Dr. Robert Anthony)

24) “It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves” (Sir Edmund Hillary)

25) “Loving yourself is the beginning of a lifelong romance” (Oscar Wilde)

26) “I had to grow up to love my body. I didn’t have a good self-image to start with. Finally, I understood that I was going to either love myself or hate myself. And I chose to love myself. Then it all started to happen for me. Things that I thought were unattractive started to look sexy. Confidence makes you sexy” (Queen Latifah)

27) “You, yourself, as much as anyone in the universe deserve your affection and your love” (Sidartha Gautama)

28) “Inaction inspires doubt and fear. Action inspires confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and keep busy” (Dale Carnegie)

29) “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without faith and trust” (Helen Keller)

30) “Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from reaching his goal; nothing on earth can help a man with the wrong mental attitude” (Thomas Jefferson)

31) “Confidence is the habit that can be developed by acting as if you already have the confidence you want to have” (Brian Tracy)

32) “If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Don’t overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are much better than you think” (T. Harv Eker)

33) “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do everything you know to make yourself happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to take care of yourself. The more deeply you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can have a lasting relationship that brings you the greatest fulfillment” (Alan Cohen)

34) “If someone told you that you are not good enough… they are not the best” (Hayley Williams)

35) “Always remember that you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think” (Christopher Robin)

36) “You have no control over other people’s tastes, so stay focused on staying true to your own taste” (Tim Gunn)

37) “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” (Eleanor Roosevelt)

38) “The moment you doubt you can fly, you undermine your ability to do so” (J. M Barrie)

39) “It’s a dead end if you sit around waiting for someone to tell you what a capable person you are” (Michael Pitt)

40) “I think power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as long as you have the confidence to move forward, it will give you the motivation to move forward and you will then look back and see how much you have accomplished.” (Robert Downey Jr)

41) “If you present yourself with confidence, you can do pretty much anything you want” (Kate Perry)

42) “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. Then release the nodes. Set sail away from safe haven. Explore. Dream. Find out” (Mark Twain)

43) “I finally stopped running from myself. What else is there to be? (Goldie Hawk)

44) “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things turned out for others. Create your own myth” (Rumi)

45) “When you’re different, chances are you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for who you are. All you notice is who doesn’t accept it” (Jodi Picoult)

46) “Once you trust yourself, you will know how to live” (Goethe)

47) “You can’t be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with” (Wayne Dyer)

48) “Don’t waste energy trying to change opinions… do what you have to do, and don’t care if they like it or not” (Tina Fey)

49) “Even when everything seems to fall apart, it’s up to me to decide between laughing or crying, going or staying, giving up or fighting.
(Cora Coralina)

50) “Be yourself. All the others already exist.”

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