Craving confidence quotes for women?
Here are all the best quotes to help you become the best version of yourself – strong, powerful, and successful.
These inspirational quotes are a stepping stone to self esteem, so:
- Use them as affirmations to find your own confidence.
- Text to your best friend when she needs a boost.
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Confidence in Yourself Quotes
These self-confidence quotes from women encourage healthy self-love.
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
~ Rosalynn Carter
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
~ Anna Freud
You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
~ Gabby Douglas
Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious don’t live at all.
~ Ashley L.
Change takes courage.
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
~ Jane Fonda
I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else’s insecurities to be your own.
~ Jessie J
We must have perseverance, and above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
~ Marie Curie
It takes a lot for you to find your confidence, but you shouldn’t let someone else be the person to find it for you.
~ Justine Skye
Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.
~ Emma Donoghue
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
~ Tori Amos
I taught myself confidence. When I’d walk into a room and feel scared to death, I’d tell myself, ‘I’m not afraid of anybody.’ And people believed me. You’ve got to teach yourself to take over the world.
~ Priyanka Chopra
Believing in yourself and having confidence gives you outer strength.
~ Nikki Bella
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there’s really nothing to lose.
~ Jewel
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.
~ Sarah Dessen
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Dress with Confidence Quotes
Clothes can make the woman, but sometimes it’s confidence that rocks the look!
The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
~ Blake Lively
I think confidence is a true form of beauty.
~ Becky G
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.
~ Diana Vreeland
If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.
~ Katy Perry
I always feel that if you’re gonna be uncomfortable and unhappy in something, just because you think it’s in or it’s chic, I would advise you to be happy rather than well-dressed. It’s better to be happy.
~ Iris Apfel
Find what makes you feel comfortable. The confidence you wear your clothes in is what’s really going to shine.
~ Hayley Hasselhoff
Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Confidence is everything. Confidence is what makes that simple white tee and jeans look good.
~ Ciara
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
~ Coco Chanel
Your worth is not what you wear, but what you do.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It’s not about brands. It’s about something else that comes from within you.
~ Ralph Lauren
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
~ Coco Chanel
Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
~ Sabrina Carpenter
Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.
~ Bill Cunningham
Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.
~ Gianni Versace
Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.
~ Amit Kalantri
I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
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Confidence & Courage Quotes by Maya Angelou
Wise words from a powerful woman.
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
~ Maya Angelou
Let nothing dim the light that shines from within.
~ Maya Angelou
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
~ Maya Angelou
Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God.
~ Maya Angelou
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
~ Maya Angelou
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
~ Maya Angelou
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
~ Maya Angelou
Determine to live life with flair and laughter.
~ Maya Angelou
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
~ Maya Angelou
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
~ Maya Angelou
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.
~ Maya Angelou
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
~ Maya Angelou
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
~ Maya Angelou
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
~ Maya Angelou
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done, and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
~ Maya Angelou
You develop courage by doing small things, just as you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
~ Maya Angelou
The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.
~ Maya Angelou
You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’
~ Maya Angelou
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
~ Maya Angelou
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!
~ Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
~ Maya Angelou
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‘I’m a representative.’
~ Maya Angelou
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Oprah Winfrey Confidence Quotes
Motivational quotes about believing in yourself from this very successful woman.
Anything you can imagine, you can create.
~ Oprah Winfrey
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.
~ Oprah Winfrey
What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Only my own personal vision holds me back.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Don’t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.
~ Oprah Winfrey
You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.
~ Oprah Winfrey
It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you – always.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Let your light shine within you so that it can shine on someone else.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
~ Oprah Winfrey
You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
~ Oprah Winfrey
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I was once afraid of people saying, Who does she think she is? Now I have the courage to stand and say, This is who I am.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself
~ Oprah Winfrey
If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
~ Oprah Winfrey
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16 Funny Confidence Quotes
Sometimes the best confidence quotes are the ones that make you laugh!
Quit beating yourself up, beat your goals up instead.
~ Nora Roberts
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
~ Lillian Hellman
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.
~ Robert Brault
Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.
~ Robert Downey Jr.
It’s not whether you got knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.
~ Vince Lombardi Jr.
Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
~ Henry Ford
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
~ Mark Twain
Self-confidence grows on trees in other people’s orchards.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.
~ Robert Greene
Feel free to substitute queen, girl!
Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
~ Paul Brandt
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
~ Anonymous
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Famous Women Confidence Quotes
These confident women didn’t achieve role model status by accident. Read their powerful quotes and be inspired.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
~ Dolly Parton
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhart
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
~ Bette Davis
Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
~ Lucille Ball
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~ Helen Keller
Comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
~ Alicia Keys
Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
~ Coco Chanel
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you’re confident even when you’re not.
~ Vanessa Hudgens
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.
~ Mary Kay Ash
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
~ Anne Frank
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
~ Helen Keller
A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.
~ Marilyn Monroe
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
~ Erma Bombeck
Confidence makes you sexy.
~ Queen Latifah
Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
~ Barbra Streisand
Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.
~ Avril Lavigne
Confidence – It all has to do with how you feel about yourself – it’s about projecting the attitude, I’m happy with who I am.
~ Jennifer Lopez
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Strong Women Quotes
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
~ Gail Devers
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
~ Mae Jemison
Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.
~ Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
Don’t take anything for granted. If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a little more confidence.
~ Cathy Moriarty
Confidence isn’t optimism or pessimism, and it’s not a character attribute. It’s the expectation of a positive outcome.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.
~ Jessica Williams
My confidence comes from the daily grind – training my butt off day in and day out.
~ Hope Solo
Sometimes, if you fake confidence long enough, you’re going to be confident.
~ Elle King
It’s all about confidence and how you feel about yourself. There’s no such thing as a perfect woman. I like imperfections – that’s what makes you unique.
~ Hayley Hasselhoff
I have a lot of confidence in myself, and I love that challenge as well. I love going to every competition as the favourite. It’s something I relish.
~ Katie Taylor
Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.
~ Danica McKellar
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Quotes on Confidence from Age and Experience
Youth is beautiful, but it fades. Fortunately we get confidence in return!
There’s a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn’t anticipate.
~ Jillian Michaels
Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.
~ Michelle Obama
Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.
~ Nicole Scherzinger
Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.
~ Leslie Mann
I think confidence does come with time, and I’ve been really surprised by that, actually.
~ Kate Winslet
For me, so far, confidence has been a journey, not a destination.
~ Jessica Williams
I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day.
~ Lynn Good
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I never had confidence – never. The hardest thing to know is your own worth, and it took me years and years to find out what mine is.
~ Peggy Lipton
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Short Confidence Quotes
Confident people are busy people!
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Clear your mind of can’t.
~ Samuel Johnson
Freedom lies in being bold.
~ Robert Frost
Talent is given, greatness is earned.
~ Lebron James
Confidence is a very fragile thing.
~ Joe Montana
Self trust is the essence of heroism.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be yourself, there is no one better.
~ Taylor Swift
Love, like fortune, favors the bold.
~ E.A. Bucchianeri
I’d rather die my way than live yours.
~ Lauren Oliver
Kindness in words creates confidence.
~ Lao Tzu
Do one thing every day that scares you.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
~ William Hazlitt
A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.
~ Nathaniel Branden
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
~ Milton Berle
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
~ George Patton
Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.
~ Penelope Ward
Confidence comes from discipline and training.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
~ George Herbert
The higher you climb, the further you have to fall.
~ Malorie Blackman
Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them.
~ Robert Greene
When you have confidence, you can do anything.
~ Sloane Stevens
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
~ John D. Rockefeller
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence.
~ Dalai Lama
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
~ Benjamin Spock
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
~ Zig Ziglar
It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
~ Xiaolu Guo
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
~ E.E. Cummings
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible.’
~ Audrey Hepburn
As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.
~ Donald J. Trump
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
~ Napoleon Hill
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
~ Vince Lombardi
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
~ Bayard Taylor
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.
~ Les Brown
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
~ William G.T. Shedd
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
~ Dante Alighieri
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
~ Stan Smith
To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.
~ Roy T. Bennett
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
~ Mark Twain
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.
~ Robin Sharma
Courage originally meant to speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.
~ Brené Brown
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
~ Les Brown
When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
~ Billy Graham
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
~ Robert Hand
You don’t have to worry about burning bridges if you’re building your own.
~ Kerry E. Wagner
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.
~ J.M. Barrie
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
~ William Faulkner
When you trust yourself, you sow the seeds of fear into the hearts of your enemies!
~ Mehmet Murat ildan
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.
~ Michael Jordan
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Acts of bravery don’t always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart.
~ Anna Quindlen
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.
~ Sarah Dessen
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Best Confidence Quotes
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