I know a few extremely confident--not cocky, confident--people. (Hither's how you tin tell if someone is genuinely confident.) It's as if they were born that manner.

The rest of us sometimes lack confidence--and nosotros often lack belief in ourselves when we demand it about.

Fortunately, self-confidence is a quality you can develop. Anyone can be more than confident. (Even me.)

But edifice self-confidence takes time. So if yous need a quick shot of it, here are some slap-up motivational quotes that volition inspire you to feel more self-assured:

  1. "When you're unlike, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept yous for what you are. All you lot notice is the person who doesn't." --Jodi Picoult
  2. "Every bit before long as you trust yourself, you lot volition know how to live." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. "Yous cannot exist alone if you similar the person you're lone with." --Wayne Dyer
  4. "Just pick a goal, a goal you lot truly want to achieve, and have a clear-eyed wait at your weaknesses--not so you'll experience less confident, merely so you can decide exactly what you need to work on. Then become to work. Gloat small successes. Clarify your weaknesses. Go on going. Every bit y'all gain skill, you lot'll besides gain a feeling of genuine confidence, one that can never be taken away--because you lot've earned information technology." (OK, that one is mine, he said, blushing.)
  5. "Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... exercise your thing, and don't care if they like it." --Tina Fey
  6. "Pride is holding your caput upward when everyone around yous has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do information technology." --Bryce Courtenay
  7. "The style to develop self-confidence is to practise the thing you lot fright and become a record of successful experiences behind y'all." --William Jennings Bryan
  8. "If you hear a vox inside y'all say 'you cannot pigment,' then by all ways paint, and that vocalisation volition be silenced." --Vincent van Gogh
  9. "Always exist yourself and have faith in yourself. Do non go out and expect for a successful personality and attempt to indistinguishable it." --Bruce Lee
  10. "Don't await until everything is just right. Information technology will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Become started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more than self-confident, and more and more successful." --Mark Victor Hansen
  11. "Yous wouldn't worry so much nigh what others retrieve of yous if you realized how seldom they practise." --Eleanor Roosevelt
  12. "Low cocky-confidence isn't a life sentence. Self-confidence tin can be learned, practiced, and mastered--just like any other skill. In one case you master it, everything in your life will alter for the better." --Barrie Davenport
  13. "Once we believe in ourselves, we tin can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the man spirit." --Eastward.E. Cummings
  14. "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that yous will be happy to live with all your life. Make the virtually of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of accomplishment." --Golda Meir
  15. "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important primal to self-conviction is training." --Arthur Ashe
  16. "It is conviction in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures." --Oprah Winfrey
  17. "To be yourself in a globe that is constantly trying to brand you something else is the greatest achievement." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  18. "Simply failure has to be an pick in art and in exploration--because it'south a leap of organized religion. And no important endeavor that required innovation was washed without adventure. You lot have to exist willing to take those risks." --James Cameron
  19. "People are like stained-drinking glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the dominicus is out, merely when the darkness sets in their true dazzler is revealed just if there is lite from within." --Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
  20. "Confidence comes not from always being right only from not fearing to be incorrect." --Peter T. McIntyre
  21. "Contend for your limitations and, sure plenty, they're yours." --Richard Bach
  22. "The courage to exist is the courage to have oneself, in spite of existence unacceptable." --Paul Tillich
  23. "If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." --Thomas Alva Edison
  24. "Shyness has a strange chemical element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people." --Andre Dubus
  25. "Our deepest fear is non that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that about frightens us. Nosotros inquire ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabled?' Really, who are you lot not to be?" --Marianne Williamson
  26. "Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love." --Brené Brown
  27. "Trust yourself. Y'all know more than than y'all think you practice." --Dr. Benjamin Spock
  28. "Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't allow these feelings terminate them." --T. Harv Eker
  29. "You can take anything yous desire if you lot are willing to give up the belief that you tin can't have it." --Dr. Robert Anthony
  30. "It is not the mountain nosotros conquer, simply ourselves." --Sir Edmund Hillary
  31. "To love oneself is the kickoff of a lifelong romance." --Oscar Wilde
  32. "I had to abound to love my body. I did non have a good self-image at outset. Finally it occurred to me, I'thou either going to honey me or hate me. And I chose to dearest myself. So everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't bonny became sexy. Conviction makes you sexy." --Queen Latifah
  33. "You yourself, every bit much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your honey and affection." --Buddha
  34. "Inaction breeds incertitude and fearfulness. Action breeds conviction and courage. If yous desire to conquer fear, do not sit dwelling house and remember virtually it. Get out and get decorated." --Dale Carnegie
  35. "Optimism is the religion that leads to achievement. Nothing tin can exist done without hope and confidence." --Helen Keller
  36. "Nada can finish the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nix on earth tin help the man with the wrong mental attitude." --Thomas Jefferson
  37. "Conviction is a addiction that can exist developed by interim as if yous already had the conviction you desire to have." --Brian Tracy
  38. "When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned effectually." --Willie Nelson
  39. "If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think." --T. Harv Eker
  40. "Wouldn't it be powerful if yous fell in honey with yourself so deeply that yous would do just near annihilation if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves yous and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more than the universe will affirm your worth. Then yous tin bask a lifelong love thing that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out." --Alan Cohen
  41. "To anyone that ever told yous y'all're no good ... They're no better." --Hayley Williams
  42. "Ever remember you are braver than yous believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you call up." --Christopher Robin
  43. "Yous take no control over other people'south taste, so focus on staying truthful to your ain." --Tim Gunn
  44. "No one tin can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt
  45. "The moment you dubiety whether you tin can fly, you lot terminate forever to exist able to do information technology." --J.M. Barrie
  46. "It's a expressionless-stop street if you sit down around waiting for someone else to tell y'all you're OK." --Michael Pitt
  47. "I retrieve that the power is the principle. The principle of moving frontwards, as though yous accept the confidence to movement forward, eventually gives you lot confidence when yous look back and run into what yous've washed." --Robert Downey Jr.
  48. "If yous're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much annihilation." --Katy Perry
  49. "Xx years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't practise than by the ones yous did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the condom harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Observe." --Marking Twain
  50. "I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is in that location better to be?" --Goldie Hawn
  51. "Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth." --Rumi
  52. "Nosotros avoid the things that nosotros're afraid of because nosotros think at that place will be dire consequences if we confront them. Only the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover." --Shakti Gawain
  53. "Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to brand themselves superior to others; they practice not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves confronting a comparative standard. Their joy is beingness who they are, not in being meliorate than someone else." --Nathaniel Branden
  54. "Reverberate upon your nowadays blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men take some." --Charles Dickens
  55. "Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are." --Chinese proverb