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Confidence is one of those elusive characteristics. It’s easy to spot when someone has it, but it is hard to pinpoint what exact steps one should take to reach a certain level of confidence.

It is a quality that everyone has access to, yet many struggle to achieve it. We are here to provide you with the best confidence resources out there to help you better understand confidence so that you can achieve your own confidence goals.

What is confidence?

First and foremost, what is confidence? Confidence can be described as a belief in one’s ability to succeed. Too much confidence can cause a person to be perceived as arrogant and unapproachable, but too little is often perceived as incompetence and lack of skill. Both extremes can make way for poor judgment in decision making. Finding the right balance is extremely important. 

Why does it matter?

Confidence can be the determining factor between success and failure. Lack of confidence often leads to lack of action. In order to be successful in your career, it is vital that you are confident in your decisions. In this article, Lifehacker has provided a few ways that tangibly improving your own self confidence manifests in real-world benefits.

Books on Confidence

Here are our top 10 books to read on confidence.

  1. Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway: How to Turn Your Fear and Indecision into Confidence and Action by Susan Jeffers
  2. Step Up: Confidence, Success and Your Stellar Career in 10 Minutes a Day by Phanella Mayall Fine
  3. Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, 2nd Edition: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques by Dr. Melanie Fennell
  4. How to Develop Self-confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie
  5. Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day by Marisa Peer
  6. Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance by Matthew Syed
  7. Mindset: How You Can Fulfill Your Potential by Carol Dweck
  8. The Little Book Of Confidence by Susan Jeffers
  9. The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman
  10. Overcoming Social Anxiety & Shyness by Gillian Butler

Confidence Quotes

The right quote at the right time can be extremely powerful. Here are a few of our favorites to boost your self confidence.

  1. Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.― Lao Tzu

  2. Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it. ― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

  3. Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.― Sheri L. Dew

  4. Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.- Theodore Roosevelt

  5. Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. – Marie Curie

  6. One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.- Arthur Ashe

  7. To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now. – Alan Cohen

  8. Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. – Oprah

  9. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. – Marianne Williamson

  10. You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. – Zig Ziglar

 

Hopefully, these confidence resources will be just what the doctor ordered and allow you to take your business to the next level. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that confidence is contagious. So lead by example, and let the rest follow.

 

 

 

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