Category: Confidence Quotes SMS

It’s me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence. ~Paula Cole, "Me," This Fire

Life marks us all down, so it’s just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960CDN, TPV

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate.  It was not a matter of bad or good luck.  When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.  ~Anaïs NinCUL

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.  ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1958, spoken by the character Holly GolightlyTPV

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

The horizon, to remind you of your courage, sends its gentle waves of confidence to kiss your feet.  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.  ~Peter T. Mcintyre

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.  ~W.C. Fields

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.  ~Louisa May Alcott

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.  ~Bruce Barton

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.  ~Henrik IbsenCUL

Confidence is preparation.  Everything else is beyond your control.  ~Richard Kline

I am not a has-been.  I am a will be.  ~Lauren Bacall

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960CDN, TPV

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.  ~Author Unknown

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.  ~Attributed to Hanoch McCarty

[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.  ~George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921WLBUQ

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.  ~Edmund Hillary

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.  ~Michel de Montaigne

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.  ~Sonya Friedman

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.  ~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604, act 1, scene 4, line 78; PMB, p224

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.  ~Thomas Alva Edison

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.  ~Sophia Loren

It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.  ~Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970LCD

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses.  That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth […]

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.  ~Epicurus

Do not doubt the goodness in you.  It is inappropriate.  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Self-love seems so often unrequited.  ~Anthony PowellA Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.  ~Edgar Allan Poe

Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be. ~Karen Ravn

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.  ~Charles DickensCUL

Don’t let anyone steal your dream.  It’s your dream, not theirs.  ~Dan Zadra

Don’t live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  ~Wendy WassersteinSG

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people’s orchards.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960CDN

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.  ~Michel de Montaigne SD

Put your future in good hands – your own.  ~Author Unknown

Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.  ~Ram Dass

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven. ~William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.  ~John Powell

Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.  ~Les Brown

Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown.  ~Author Unknown

I’m not old enough to play baseball or football.  I’m not eight yet.  My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren’t going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation.  I told Mom I wouldn’t need to run that fast.  When I play baseball, I’ll  just hit them out […]

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs.  Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.  ~E.F. Schumacher

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do…. Build, therefore, your own world.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1836/1849, sect. 4MBT

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.  ~Allen H. Neuharth

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.  ~Sally Field

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.  ~Richard Bach, Illusions

Be humble, for you are made of dung. Be noble, for you are made of stars. ~Serbian Saying

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.  ~Author Unknown

As soon Seek roses in December, ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that’s false, before You trust in critics. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers", line 75; BMC

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.  ~André Dubus

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.  ~Henry David ThoreauCUL