Confident Quotes
Confidence, in this collection, is treated as something built rather than assumed — a number of these quotes come from writers who were explicit that self-trust takes deliberate practice against the pull of convention.
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.”
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.”
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”