Quotes to Feel Confident

Empowering words to remind you of your worth and unlimited potential.

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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

— Virginia Woolf

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“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourself.”

— Epictetus

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

— Epictetus

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

— Maya Angelou

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up when you can't control the outcome.”

— Brené Brown

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

— Brené Brown

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”

— Brené Brown

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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

— Mark Twain

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

— Oscar Wilde

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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“A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

— Seneca

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“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

— Lao Tzu

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“You are enough just as you are.”

— Brené Brown

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“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

— Oscar Wilde

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