It’s taken me years to feel confident about myself and my awkward quirks.
The fact that I don’t always know how to act around new people. And how I will sometimes spend so much time overthinking about the right thing to say that I just prefer not to say anything at all.
Or how interacting with large crowds is often hella uncomfy for me and maintaining eye contact with people is literally the hardest thing sometimes.
This lack of confidence wrecked my ability to have healthy romantic relationships for years and it also made me unable to trust in my friendships because I felt so unworthy.
I’m not going to lie, I still have some slip-ups here and there.
But I’m learning more and more every day that it’s okay to be different and a bit awkward. And a little weird too tbh.
I mean who wants to be perfectly normal? Nah…that’s BORING!
My little quirks and slight uncomfiness don’t take away from my value as a person. And they don’t take away from yours either!
To remind myself of this, I love reading these empowering confidence quotes from celebs and important people who have also gone through a long journey of finding their confidence. I hope they inspire you as much as they inspire me!
35 Quotes to Help You Feel More Confident
- “Where’s your will to be weird?”-Jim Morrison
- “Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.”- Jodie Foster
- “If I wait for someone to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.”- Zanele Muholi
- “Be yourself. Embrace your quirks. Being weird is a wonderful thing.”- Ed Sheeran
- “Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”- Harvey Fierstein
- “Wanna fly? You got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”- Toni Morrison
- “The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”- Rita Mae Brown
- “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be.”- Richard P. Feynman
- “DANCE as though everybody is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”- Mandy Hale
- “Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.”- Ai Weiwei
- “Pinocchio went out into the world. He went on his road filled with good intentions, with a vision. He went ready to do all the things he dreamed, but he was pulled this way and that. He was distracted. He faltered. He made mistakes. But he kept on. Pinocchio, in the end, became himself–because the little flame inside him, no matter what crap he went through, would not be extinguished. We are all Pinocchio.”- Patti Smith
- “Being full of affection for one’s goofy, self-centered, cranky, annoying self is home. It’s where world peace begins.”- Anne Lamott
- “Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?”- Edith Sitwell
- “I can do anything I want…I’m eccentric! ”- Andy Breckman
- “Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.”- Carrie Fisher
- “If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.”- Beverly Cleary
- “The world is full of important ideas, but I’ll follow my own mind.”- Sten Nadolny
- “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”- Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Sooner or later, I do what I want to do.”- Muriel Spark
- “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”- Henry David Thoreau
- “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”- Dr. Seuss
- “Your problem is you’re…too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”- Ram Dass
- “People always want to tell you how to do it. No, do it your way. And don’t ask for like, “Oh, how can you do it?” Do it. Figure it out.”- Cardi B
- “You’re not gonna tell me who I am. I’m gonna tell you who I am.”- Nicki Minaj
- “I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”- Simone De Beauvoir
- “Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”- Miles Davis
- “Always remember to see things in a new, weird way.”- Tim Burton
- “If you feel like a weirdo, it’s okay because weirdos rule the world.”- Aubrey Plaza
- “If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.”- Billie Holiday
- “Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.”-Lady Gaga
- “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”- Maya Angelou
- “It’s normal to be weird.”- A,J Jacobs
- “Rebel, children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.”- Russell Brand
- “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed, And you are beautiful.”- Amy Bloom
- “The only approval you need is your own.”- Amanda Gorman
Are there any other confidence quotes that have helped you before? Feel free to share them with me below!
