20 Encouraging Quotes

Sometimes you doubt and are afraid of starting something new. Read these quotes to stimulate self-confidence.

1. You do not have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. Zig Ziglar
2. Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality. Les Brown
3. Belief in God will help you most if you also believe in yourself. Honore de Balzac
4. It is better to be confident of yourself and deceived than to doubt when being right. Janusz Wisniewski
5. Self-confidence is the first condition of great enterprise. Samuel Johnson
6. Self-confidence is the basis of our confidence in others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
7. He can do much, who counts a lot on himself. Wilhelm Humboldt
8. When you admit the magnificence of your individuality, others will have no choice but to agree. Vadim Zeland
9. The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. Sonia Friedman
10. You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. Brian Tracy
11. Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. Benjamin Disraeli
12. If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. William James
13. There is only one corner of the universe that you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. Aldous Huxley
14. The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and self-respect everywhere, except within themselves, and so they fail in their search. Nathaniel Branden
15. Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be because, sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? Fanny Brice
16. Distrust of ourselves is the cause of most of our failures. Christian Bowie
17. What a man thinks of himself determines or rather directs his fate. Kahlan
18. A false note played clumsily is just a false note. A false note played confidently is improvisation. Bernard Werber
19. Hope exhausts, while confidence saves a lot of energy. Max Frye
20. You yourself deserve your love and affection as much as anyone else in the universe. Buddha