96 Confidence quotes to activate and empower.
These self-confidence quotes defeat doubt and rekindle your sense of strength.
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Choose from the best confidence quotes for every occasion.
Everyone, at some point, suffers a lack of confidence. For some, it’s a perpetual fight. For others, it’s in specific environments. Even for the most confident among us, there are triggering situations when doubt creeps in.
Without self-confidence, those doubts get in the way of us reaching our goals — or trying at all.
What if you could instantly step out from under that rain cloud? What if you could suddenly remember what you do have going for you, then get back to it with a renewed sense of strength?
Cue: self-confidence quotes. Peruse this handpicked collection of the best, and get ready to put them to use in inspirational posters, personal cards, and more.
Confidence boosting quotes to leap over the low moments.
Can you remember the last time self-doubt snuck up on you? Everything was fine, but then, presented with criticism or faced with something you weren’t sure you could do, your confidence collapsed.
These are the confidence boosting quotes for those moments of sudden doubt. Keep them in inspirational photo collages, posters, and personal reminders. From confidence good luck quotes for a big presentation to sassy self-confidence quotes to always hold your head high, this collection hits the spot.
Emma Lovewell
Imagine that a friend is going through exactly what you’re going through. What would you say to that friend? You’ll think of something much more reassuring than your current doubt-filled dialog to yourself.
Shaquille O'Neal
What is your Kryptonite? What are you afraid of? Most likely, your Kryptonite doesn’t exist, or hasn’t happened, or is based on “what ifs.”
Marie Curie
When you get stuck thinking about what you’re bad at, remember what you’re good at. Then, do that instead. You’ll instantly start to feel more confident.
Vincent Van Gogh
If it’s just a voice in your head saying you can’t do something, get aggressive. Prove that voice wrong. Argue with it. Demand to see its evidence. (It probably has none.)
Jean Vanier
If you’re feeling down on yourself and you notice feelings of envy toward someone else, refocus your energy. Ask yourself, what about you could make someone else feel envious?
Jack Canfield
Confidence isn’t just for us. Sometimes, we have to be confident around coworkers, friends, or family to get something done in collaboration.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
What could your moments of low self-confidence foster in your interactions with others? It’s rarely anything good.
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Confidence motivational quotes when action is needed.
One of the first things that low self-confidence does is debilitate us. We have something we need or want to do, but we freeze. We don’t think we can.
Without an injection of confidence, we might not even try.
These memorable messages don’t just open your eyes; they give you a kick in the pants. Peruse these quotes, choose your favorites, and imagine what they could do in social media posts, banners, posters, and other projects to share.
Virginia Woolf
Among the classic “confidence, just be yourself” quotes, this message reminds us that real confidence doesn’t come from external sources.
Christine D’Ercole
This short self-confidence quote is perfect for banners or posters at schools, personal inspirational collages, and anywhere someone could potentially benefit from it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you’re suffering from a recent blow to your self-confidence, inaction will only make it worse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make yourself into the person you can feel confident about.
Jack Welch
Peruse a handpicked collection of success quotes for more confidence-boosters, too.
Dale Carnegie
The theme of taking action to breed confidence has been echoed by many of history’s greats.
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By women, confidence quotes for women.
Social realities for women have changed over the centuries, but there are still many shared experiences that shape women’s typical self-confidence. There’s been a long history of objectifying women on measures of beauty, for one. Beauty self-confidence quotes help redefine attractiveness — as well as its place in a person’s self-worth.
Women are often seen as “less than” in environments like the workplace, too, with less recognition for the work they do.
Confidence quotes for women take insights from powerful women to help empower others in terms that are deeply relatable. They cover topics like achievement, not taking “no” for an answer, and nurturing confidence from within.
Venus Williams
It’s easy to think of quotes by the Williams sisters as confidence tennis quotes, but this one hits deeper. This is a valuable reminder for women of all ages and circumstances.
Serena Williams
You can feel fear without it being the only emotion in the moment. Identify the other emotions and find your source of strength and confidence.
Sabrina Carpenter
Many body confidence quotes describe self-confidence as the most beautiful trait anyone can have. A similar quote by Blake Lively says, “the most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.”
Madeleine Albright
Once you find your sense of self-confidence, use it.
Louise May Alcott
Part of confidence is remembering that it will make life’s downs easier, but it won’t eliminate them.
Leymah Gbowee
Having confidence means having opinions, sharing them, and living your life with assurance in each step.
Rosa Parks
One of the keys to confidence: know what you want. If you’re struggling with self-confidence in something, do you know what you want out of that situation?
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Confidence quotes for men that go beyond the expected.
Many confidence quotes for men are about winning, success, and power. Generations have thought that these are the only shows of confidence men should care about.
Still, men have moments of self-doubt with their own body images, not to mention how they stack up against their peers. Men struggle, too, to reach the stereotypes of “success,” defined by faceless forebearers of society’s past.
Confidence quotes for men go beyond those stereotypes. They dare to touch real self-esteem issues that many men have. Take your pick of these self-confidence quotes and imagine what they could do for specific people you know.
David Brinkley
Highly competitive environments breed criticism, and sometimes, critique can deal a real blow to self-confidence. This quote could go on a poster with a visual depicting the metaphor.
Jack Nicklaus
Nicklaus was a respected athlete on the golf course, and for a dose of added confidence, golf quotes like this one can help (even outside the world of golf).
Stephen Richards
If you hang around the right people, you’ll get a whiff of self-confidence that can help bolster your own.
Mark Twain
Society has said for millennia that men must be courageous. However, courage isn’t the absence of fear, just like confidence isn’t the absence of doubt.
Cicero
If confidence is embarking on “great and honorable courses,” cockiness is embarking on petty ones. The difference is important.
Rumi
Confidence comes from your own experience, not how yours compares to others’.
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Confidence quotes for kids to learn self-confidence early.
Surrounded by peers every day at school, kids first look for external sources of self-confidence. Whether on field day, or during the spelling bee, or when kids line up to pick teams during gym, feedback from other kids can be interpreted as confidence boosters or busters.
Confidence quotes for kids are ideal for use on posters, flyers, and more. They each carry the message that self-confidence comes from within, and they use relatable metaphors and visuals that children can understand and remember.
Choose your favorite confidence quotes for kids and imagine everywhere you could use them. Remember, it’s all easy to make in Adobe Express — no experience required.
Thomas Edison
A simple follow-up to this quote is to ask a child, “what are you capable of?” Learn what children’s perceived skills are, and then help them identify more.
Michael Jordan
What better soundbite to use between confidence basketball quotes than this one, from one of the best basketball players of all time.
Marvin Phillips
The play on words makes this short quote more memorable for kids.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It’s a major epiphany for kids when they learn that others are rarely thinking of or forming opinions about them.
Michelle Obama
Sometimes, the source of a quote is as important as the quote itself. Michelle Obama has been a long-time advocate for education, and this quote speaks directly to kids.
Robert Breault
This flipped logic gives kids (and adults) an easy way to dismiss criticism that could otherwise undermine self-confidence.
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Short confidence quotes that still send a big message.
When space is limited — on banners, social media posts, flyers, and other projects — you can still deliver a big dose of self-confidence. These short confidence quotes do exactly that.
Take your pick of the quotes you find most memorable, and use them everywhere imaginable.
Aditi Shah
Remember what you do and do well, and give that to the world with full confidence.
Adrian Williams
With perseverance comes confidence.
Mitch Albom
Confidence isn’t just about knowing what you do well; it’s also about knowing and embracing who you are.
George Herbert
This message goes well on a poster. It reminds us what they payoff of confidence can be.
Rita Mae Brown
You probably never associated humor and self-confidence, but it’s only when you have the latter that you can laugh at yourself, see the humor in life, and come out whole on the other side.
William Hazlitt
Without self-confidence, we undermine the abilities we already have, not to mention those we have the potential to develop.
Amelia Earhart
Don’t be the kid who hesitates at the top of the waterslide.
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Tips to share confidence quotes.
Maybe you searched for self-confidence quotes because you needed some for yourself. Or maybe you searched for them to share with others. Either way, this is your chance to think of all the places you can use them.
For example:
- Custom cards for people you know need a confidence booster.
- Personal letters to people you’re even closer with, whom you want to send an extended message to.
- Photo collages to share on social, in emails, and to pin to your desk for inspiration.
- Flyers to promote events that push people out of their comfort zones.
- Social media posts that can be shared by businesses or users to spread memorable messages.
Exercise: measure your confidence.
If you don’t feel like you have the greatest self-confidence, do you know where you fall on self-esteem or self-worth?
Did you even know there was a difference between these things?
Learn what each really means, then ask yourself which you have the most of, and which you have the least of. Your answers might surprise you.
- Self-confidence is when you say, “I know I can do things.”
- Self-esteem is when you say, “I know I’ve successfully done things.”
- Self-worth is when you say, “I’m a person worthy of others’ love or respect.”
Adobe Express can help.
Adobe Express has templates and customization tools to put your favorite confidence quotes to work. If you want to use confidence quotes in cards, letters, posters, banners, photo collages, flyers, social media graphics, or other creative projects, Adobe Express makes it as simple as picking a template and personalizing it, or making your own idea with easy-to-use tools. Whatever message you want to transmit, Adobe Express brings it to life, no experience required.