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Confidence Quotes to Motivate and Inspire

Confidence quotes can help in improving self-esteem and self-confidence.

It’s true that they say, being confident starts with oneself. And one of the most powerful ways to build self-confidence is through positive self-talk. If you do not have your own positive self-talk worked out, you can do well to memorize confidence quotes from famous people and use those.

Start your day by facing the mirror and enumerating the reasons you’re a great person. Be as specific as possible. Don’t just say “I’m a wonderful person,” say something like, “I am generous, and I go out of my way to help people.” Don’t just say “I look great!” say something like, “I have clear skin, a contagious bright smile and a silky hair that can turn heads wherever I go!”

Apart from that, you can also use confidence quotes like the ones enumerated below. These are inspiration quotes, life quotes and motivational quotes that all pertain to self-confidence, self-esteem and optimism. If you repeat these confidence quotes to yourself with emotion, they can only help to better your life in many ways.

Here are a selection from the best confidence quotes:

  •  “Self-confidence is the key to the universe.” Carrol Wrackley
  • “With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” Dalai Lamaconfidence quotes
  • “I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.” Edgar Allan Poe
  • “Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.” Thomas Carlyle
  • “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” Arthur Ashe
  • “Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.” Andre Maurois
  • “There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.” Orison Swett Marden
  • “Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  • “We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.” Thomas Jefferson
  • “Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” Samuel Johnson
  • “Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.” Jack Welch
  • “The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.” William Jennings Bryan
  • “It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.” Giacomo Casanova
  • “What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.” Norman Vincent Peale
  • “What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.” Theodore Roethke
  • “What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.” Bertrand Russell
  • “Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.” Brian Tracy
  • “When you are alone you are all your own.” Leonardo Da Vinci
  • “When you engage in systematic, purposeful action, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident about yourself.” Brian Tracy

Want to know how to build your confidence easily? Start by getting the inspiration you need. The confidence quotes above will provide you with the motivation to look at yourself and the world around in a more positive light.

Why Do Some People Succeed While Others Fail?

One of the things that has intrigued me for a long time is simply this..

What is the core issue behind why some people fail to achieve their goals, but others succeed?

After all, we’re all born with certain gifts, talents, and a good degree of intelligence too. Yet, these seem completely uncorrelated to the success that some people experience in life, or the mediocrity that others must tolerate as their lot.

The “super-talented” derelict is almost proverbial. Those with the most intelligence and talent frequently under-utilize both. You often see people in senior positions in business, giving orders to people with more intelligence and talent than they themselves ever had.

Many people strive to better their lives. They ponder and imagine their future, set goals, and maybe even make some serious effort to achieve those goals.

Yet, it all mysteriously comes to nothing.

So they end up doing the whole thing over, either with the same goal or with new ones.

However, they inevitably find that the cycle repeats. Nothing much is ever achieved.

goal setting

Set more goals? Visualize? But it’s failed already!

Maybe you have experienced this very thing in your own life? Many people have. And it’s very frustrating.

The prescription frequently given is basically to do more of the same. Set more goals. Get precise on what you really want. Visualize your future reality. Use more determination. Persist. And so on.

All of this is fine and well. It works for the right people at the right time. It should work for everyone, but apparently it doesn’t.

And there’s a simple reason for that. It’s not that some people are smarter or more talented. Intelligence and talent actually have little to do with it, as I mentioned.

No. There’s something else going on. Can you think what it
might be?…

I’ve pondered this issue for a long time. The answer is by no means obvious, but I think I’ve finally hit upon it.

And in the post tomorrow, I’m going to tell you what it is that causes this failure that so many people experience and are frustrated with.

In the meantime, think for yourself about this yourself. See if you can come up with the answer.

Asoka Selvarajah

Creator of The Confidence Cure