Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

- Samuel Johnson

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

- Maya Angelou

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

- Robert Frost

All will be well, all will be well, and all manner of things will be well.

- Julian of Norwich

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

- Vince Lombardi

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt.

- Bertrand Russell

Be courteous to all but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

- George Washington

Self-command is the main elegance.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

- Arthur Ashe

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

- Erik H. Erikson

To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.

- Sidonie Gruenberg

Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

- Robert Coles

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure.

- Baruch Spinoza

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

- Marian Wright Edelman

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

- Virginia Woolf



If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. also attributed to Mary Kay Ash

- Henry Ford



Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity.
Kindness in giving creates love.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)



You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt



There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

- Samuel Johnson