Quotes About Confidence

Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing.

— Catherine the Great

If you’re feeling good about you, what you’re wearing outside doesn’t mean a thing.

— Leontyne Price

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life.  With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

— Marcus Garvey

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

— Henry C. Link

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

— Roderick Thorpe

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

— Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows.

— Clarence B. Randall

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

— Anthony Trollope

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

— Max Lerner

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

— Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues

He who has the confidence in himself will lead the rest.

— Horace

If you think you can, you can.  And if you think you can’t, you’re right.

— Mary Kay Ash

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

— Eric Hoffer

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

— Niccol˜ Machiaavelli

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

— G. K. Chesterton

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

— G. K. Chesterton

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

— Gustave Flaubert