101 Self-Love & Confidence Quotes to Feel Stronger

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

— Buddha

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

— Lucille Ball

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.

— Audrey Hepburn

You are enough just as you are.

— Meghan Markle

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

— Maya Angelou

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

— André Gide

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

— Maya Angelou

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

— Mark Twain

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

— Helen Keller

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

— William James

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

— Harvey Fierstein

You are your best thing.

— Toni Morrison

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

— Louisa May Alcott

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through.

— Maya Angelou

You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

— Marcus Aurelius

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

— Lao Tzu

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

— Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

— Aristotle

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

— Michel de Montaigne

We are what we repeatedly do.

— Aristotle

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

— Maya Angelou

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.'

— Napoleon Hill

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

— Wayne Gretzky

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

— Henry Ford

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

— Walt Disney

It always seems impossible until it's done.

— Nelson Mandela

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

— Maya Angelou

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

— Peter Drucker

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

— Vince Lombardi

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

— Japanese Proverb

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

— Oprah Winfrey

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being.

— Diane von Furstenberg

The only journey is the one within.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

— Carl Jung

Your task is not to look for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

— Rumi

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

— Carl Jung

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you truly are.

— Joseph Campbell

Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.

— Susan Statham

Comparison is the thief of joy.

— Theodore Roosevelt

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

— George Eliot

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

— Dr. Seuss

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

— William Ernest Henley

Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.

— Walt Whitman

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

— Jane Goodall

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

— Alice Walker

I don't have to be perfect. I can be good enough.

— Unknown

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do.

— Brené Brown

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

— Brené Brown

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

— Brené Brown

Self-care is how you take your power back.

— Lalah Delia

Love yourself enough to set boundaries.

— Anna Taylor

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are.

— Beyoncé

You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

— Louise Hay

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

— Louise Hay

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

— Robert Hand

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

— Aberjhani

You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress.

— Sophia Bush

You are enough. You are so enough, it is unbelievable how enough you are.

— Sierra Boggess

You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.

— Yogi Bhajan

Confidence is not 'they will like me.' Confidence is 'I'll be fine if they don't.'

— Christina Grimmie

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.

— J. M. Barrie

No one can make you feel small without your consent.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else's insecurities to be your own.

— Unknown

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

— Rumi

Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.

— Unknown

Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.

— Unknown

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

— Christian D. Larson

If you have no confidence in yourself, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.

— Tony Robbins

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

— Oscar Wilde

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

— Dr. Seuss

If you don't love yourself, nobody else will.

— RuPaul

You are worthy of the love you keep trying to give everyone else.

— Unknown

Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.

— Unknown

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

— Robert Holden

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

— Jean Shinoda Bolen

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.

— Steve Maraboli

Your inner voice is the voice of self-respect.

— Unknown

The courage to be yourself is the courage to be free.

— Unknown

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

— Peter T. McIntyre

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

— Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

— Steve Jobs

Have confidence in your ability to do what you set out to do.

— Unknown

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

— Steve Jobs

Your greatness is not what you have; it's what you give.

— Alice H. Mortimer

You are enough to be loved exactly as you are.

— Unknown

Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.

— Charles F. Glassman

Be gentle with yourself. You're doing the best you can.

— Unknown

You deserve to be happy. You deserve to live a life you are excited about.

— Hannah Bronfman