30 Fearless Quotes to Inspire Self-Confidence

Beneath every excuse lies a fear. Practice being fearless.
Robin Sharma

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S Truman

When you're challenged to the extreme, you learn so much about yourself. And when you're willing to give that ultimate sacrifice, when you're willing to tackle a job or a task or a mission head-on and give 100%, you can achieve amazing things because you're almost fearless.
Ant Middleton

Courage is found in unlikely places.
J.R.R. Tolkien

To have courage for whatever comes in life—everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Ávila

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The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
Stephen King

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
Les Brown

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
Brené Brown

Fear – who cares?
Elizabeth Gilbert

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself.
Haruki Murakami

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
Johann Wolfang von Goethe

I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.
Janelle Monae

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali

Courage is the secret sauce that allows you to act despite your fears.
Narayan Kamath

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on—it is going on when you don’t have strength.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela