What I love most about these self confidence quotes is that they come from people of all walks of life. All backgrounds and beliefs. That tells me that we all need reminders to love yourself! We all need self love quotes to remind us that our power and purpose rests within us. We hold the power to self actualize our greatest hopes and dreams!
Can you image learning this lesson when you were a kid?! Indeed, I think the world would be a better and happier place if we all had healthier self esteems. These 51 self esteem quotes can (and SHOULD!) be read by kids and adults. Send them to a teenage girl suffering from low self esteem or a young man combating the crippling stress of taking care of a growing family.
Self Confidence Quotes
1.”Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. – Oprah
2. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.” – Dr. Seuss
3. “Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
4. “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin
5. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? – Marianne Williamson
6. “To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now. – Alan Cohen
7. “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approvals. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” – Lao Tzu
8. “You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. – Zig Ziglar
9. “It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.” – Oprah Winfrey
10. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi
Self Esteem Quotes
11. “Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.” – Alan Cohen
12. “Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. – Marianne Williamson
13. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – E.E. Cumings
14. “Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.― Sheri L. Dew
15. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie
16. “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
17. “With the realization of one’s own potential and self confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” – Dalai Lama
18. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. – Marie Curie
20. “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self confidence is preparation.” – Arthur Ashe
Inspiring Quotes on Self Confidence
Focusing on Myself Quotes
21. “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it. ― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
22. “Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. – David Storey
23. “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
24. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” – Mark Twain
25. “Don’t you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are. – Jo Blackwell-Preston
26. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
27. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ” – M. Scott Peck
28. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown
29. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
30. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
Love Yourself Quotes
31. “If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” – Fred Rogers
32. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
34. “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.” – Maxwell Maltz
35. “Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” – Parker Palmer
36. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” – Jean Shinoda Bolen
38. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” – Shannon L. Alder
39. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley
40. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey
Self Love Quotes
41. “So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.” – Alan Watts
42. “Once you embrace your value, talents, and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.” – Rob Liano
43. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” – Sandra Bierig
44. “I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.” – Henry James
45. “To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” – Denis Waitley
46. “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
47. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” – Michael J. Fox
48. “No other love no matter how genuine it is can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.”- Edmond Mbiaka
49. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
50. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
51. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” – Helen Keller
