"Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words."
Read quote
107 likes
Confidence quotes
Confidence
769 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Confidence
Browse quotes that often appear alongside confidence — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Confidence quotes (page 2 of 39)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."
Read quote
101 likes
"Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are."
Read quote
101 likes
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
Read quote
98 likes
"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."
Read quote
98 likes
"If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win."
Read quote
97 likes
"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
Read quote
93 likes
"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
Read quote
93 likes
"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
Read quote
93 likes
"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad."
Read quote
91 likes
"They can do all because they think they can."
Read quote
90 likes
"Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings."
Read quote
88 likes
"Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it."
Read quote
88 likes
"As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility."
Read quote
88 likes
"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy."
Read quote
87 likes
"A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power."
Read quote
85 likes
"Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say."
Read quote
85 likes
"The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less."
Read quote
85 likes
"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."
Read quote
83 likes
"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."
Read quote
83 likes