Aren’t you curious how it is that most people look so confident and are “rocking” this life while you feel unsure of how to live it at all?
And then you open the world-wide-web and see so many questions and personal stories on self-esteem (or the lack of it) that you wonder where those people live.
Here’s the bitter truth!
We all have our masks carefully washed and ironed every morning, ready to put them on and face the world. I have my mask, and you have yours.
This world – beautiful but often confusing and demanding – has slowly taught us that uncovering ourselves could bring disappointment and pain. Nobody wants to be hurt. So we follow what others do: we put the mask on and become one of those “confident” people someone else sees and wonders, “How do they do it?”
But at night, while the mask is laying on the bathroom floor – dirty, shrunk from the tiers, and worn out, you might stare at your bedroom ceiling and wonder: How do I become myself… again?
Self-Confidence is a Skill and Happiness is What Follows You All The Time
Feeling free, breathing deeply, and looking other people straight into their eyes is often a luxury we don’t get to experience. Especially lately.
And that affects our self-confidence, brings our deepest fears out, and feeds with our last pieces of happiness. But hold on!
While painting a scene of negativity and ignorance, I must admit, there’s always a way out.
Too often what makes us tremble in fear is our door to liberation and better life also. The question would be, are you willing to face what’s behind that door?
101 Quotes on Self-Confidence and Happiness
Today, I’ve prepared 101 quotes on self-confidence and happiness that will slowly light up the path to the door, give you a pinch of courage and convince you that what you seek is already here. You might just have to reach for it.
Confidence is everything
1. As is our confidence, so is our capacity. William Hazlitt
2. Confidence is everything. Confidence is what makes that simple white tee and jeans look good. Ciara
3. The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence. Blake Lively
4. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale
5. Confidence is when you believe in yourself and your abilities, arrogance is when you think you are better than others and act accordingly.
Stewart Stafford
6. The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. J. M. Barrie
7. When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them. Karen E. Quinones Miller
8. Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. Lao Tzu
9. They will always tell you that you can’t do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up. Bob Marly
10. If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.
Suzy Kassem
Confidence as expectation of a positive outcome
11. Arrogance is loud, confidence is quiet. James Pierce
12. Confidence isn’t optimism or pessimism, and it’s not a character attribute. It’s the expectation of a positive outcome. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
13. Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong. Sarah Dessen
14. You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent. Joseph Murphy
15. Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world on your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Oprah Winfrey
16. You will be exactly as happy as you decide to be. Unknown
17. The best part about life? Every morning you have a new opportunity to become a happier version of yourself.
18. If you don’t see yourself as a winner then you cannot perform as a winner
19. The best way to gain confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. Swati Sharma
20. I love the person I’ve become because I fought to become her.
Kaci Diane
Confidence means to be ridiculous, luminous, intelligent…
21. You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. Maya Angelou
22. Confidence is the ability to feel beautiful without needing someone to tell you. Mandy Hale
23. If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. Maya Angelou
24. I found I was more confident when I stopped trying to be someone else’s definition of beautiful. Remington Miller
25. With confidence you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
26. Your life is as good as your mindset. Unknown
27. Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment. Susan Piver
28. You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it. Robert Anthony
29. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. Suzy Kassem
30. Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.
Rumi
Be happy about your own life and you will be amazed…
31. True happiness is impossible without solitude…. I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company. Sophia Loren
32. The first and greatest victory is to conquer self. Plato
33. Be happy about your own life and you’ll be amazed at just how much more beautiful you’ll find it to be. TemitOpe Ibrahim
34. Everything will change in your life when you finally learn that you deserve SO MUCH BETTER Karen Gibbs
35. The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
36. The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. Oprah Winfrey
37. The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on. Julia Alvarez
38. There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. Stephen Chbosky
39. If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you. Lao Tzu
40. Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things.
Maxime Legace
Self-love means no compulsion to justify ourselves…
41. A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life. Andrew Matthews
42. As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are – what others say is irrelevant. Nic Sheff
43. If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh
44. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Mark Twain
45. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
46. You’re gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle. David Nicholls
47. Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look. Marcus Aurelius
48. A diamond doesn’t start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I’m that diamond. Solange Nicole
49. Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. Criss Jami
50. People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
50 More Quotes on Self-Confidence and Happiness
51. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well. Miguel Ruiz
52. My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth. Sarah Kay
53. Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go. Mandy Hale
54. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. Bernard M. Baruch
55. You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
Olin Miller
56. Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. Coco Chanel
57. So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them. Sylvia Plath
58. You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing. Richard P. Feynman
59. I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Thoreau
60. When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
Your potential – your limitations
61. Stop comparing yourself with others. If they are good at something, you too are good at something else. Self-confidence is not measured by your own capabilities versus that of others, but by your own needs. Stephen Richards
62. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don’t let them interrupt or alter your song. Suzy Kassem
63. “Well, I am just going to try!” she thought confidently! Carolyn Lemky
64. Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Roy Bennett
65. I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
Martha Stewart
66. You were born an original work of art. Stay original. Suzy Kassem
67. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk
68. You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes. Lauren Oliver
69. If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton
70. Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.
Roy Bennett
The world is insecure just as much as you are
71. If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. T. Harv Eker
72. Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. Susan Gale
73. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher
74. Confidence is when you believe in yourself and your abilities, arrogance is when you think you are better than others and act accordingly. Stewart Stafford
75. Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Stan Smith
76. Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. George Herbert
77. Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. Joe Paterno
78. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson
79. I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Muhammad Ali
80. Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
Lao Tzu
Confidence is happiness
81. Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence. Michelle Obama
82. If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything. Katy Perry
83. Thinking positively also increases your confidence and makes you believe in yourself more. Robert Smith
84. Without the confidence to act, few will venture down a new path, no matter how clear the road map. W. Chan Kim, Blue Ocean Shift
85. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
86. The best way out is always through. Robert Frost
87. Once you put a fear back of you, you will gain a big boost to your confidence to take you to the next level.” Annalie Coetzer
88. People say to me all the time, ‘You have no fear.’ I tell them, ‘No, that’s not true. I’m scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I’m a courageous person because I’m a scared person.’ Ronda Rousey
89. Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. Richard Kline
90. If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.
John Lennon
Happiness is Confidence
91. Don’t let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence. Katori Hall
92. It’s nobody else’s job to make you feel good. Your confidence can’t depend on what other people think of you. It has to depend on what you think of yourself.
93. What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail? – Eleanor Roosevelt.
94. If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition. — Barbara Cook
95. Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.
Mark Victor Hansen
96. Imagine if we paid attention to what we like about ourselves as much as what we don’t. — Holly Wagner
97. You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. – Olin Miller
98. I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power. – Jason Mraz
99. Self-command is the main elegance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
100. Even if you are socially anxious, you don’t need to let that erode your self-confidence. You can be anxious and confident at the same time. The two are not mutually exclusive.
101. Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.
Cynthia Kersey
101 Quotes About Self-Confidence and Happiness
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