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Self-Confidence Quotes

When Aunt Alexandra went to school, self-doubt could not be found in any textbook, so she knew not its meaning.

– Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 13. Scout on the formidable matriarch of the Finch family and her abundance of self-confidence.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

– Jack Welch

I had a lot of self-confidence.

– Bowie Kuhn

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

– Aung San Suu Kyi

It’s different for different people, and for a woman it’s important to look as good she wants to look. But you don’t need to do it for someone else or to impress some male out there. You do it for your own sake. You wear what makes you feel good, you put make-up and jewellery – whatever gives you self-confidence.

– Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I don’t have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God and I try to share it with as many people as possible. Having a great voice is not a merit. I don’t think it is a merit.

– Andrea Bocelli

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‘Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.’

– Bill Gates

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.

– Anna Torv

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone’s brain.

– Ben Carson

I don’t possess a lot of self-confidence. I’m an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

– Arsenio Hall

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

– Bill Gates

I don’t have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God, and I try to share it with as many people as possible.

– Andrea Bocelli

For one thing, you need a lot of self-confidence to be on the top of your field. There are times probably where I appear to be over-confident or arrogant. It’s really in the eye of the beholder.

– Chevy Chase

You know, I don’t talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, ‘Could you tell us something about your character.’ Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.

– Christoph Waltz

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

– Andre Maurois

I tell students that even if they don’t like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool – a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

– Danica McKellar

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

– Channing Pollock

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

– Dalai Lama

I have more self-confidence than I did when I was in my 20s.

– Eleanor Mondale

I have a lot of social engagements, and I like to dress up for them. I try to wear what I feel comfortable in, as self-confidence is so much about how you look. Generally, I love to wear long dresses; they make you feel special.

– Marie-Chantal Claire

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn’t seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

– Michael Arndt

This clutching hold of the E.U. is a sign of a lack of national self-confidence – which is not healthy.

– Nigel Lawson

You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you’ll never be the way you were. But I feel good.

– Debi Mazar

I’m very passionate about the use of sports in young people’s lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It’s been a big thing for me.

– Ed Skrein

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right’s aura of God-given self-confidence.

– Eric Alterman

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism’s dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

– George Packer

TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.

– David Walliams

I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up.

– Kesha

I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.

– James Lasdun

I couldn’t bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

– Loretta Young

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