There are thousands of reasons to believe in yourself. In an article on Selfgrowth.com Coach Caroline Jalango lists five including the fact that life is what you make of it. “Believing that you can make it happen for yourself is an important step towards making a life that you like,” writes Jalango.

Below are some quotes I collected about believing in yourself. They are compiled form quotegarden.com, brainyquote.com and my own personal collection.

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*It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Attributed to Hanoch McCarty

*Believe in love. Believe in magic... Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will? Jon Bon Jovi

*In the face of mechanical crises—flat tires, no hot water—I always went belly up. Why? Because I could get away with it. Not that it’s any great shakes, but I don’t need a fainting couch anymore every time the house makes a terrible sound or the radiators go stone cold. ~Abigail Thomas

*Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton

*If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.~Rollo Armstrong

*I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned. ~Elana Ferrante

*The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.~Andrew Carnegie

*Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there. ~Venus Williams

*All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. ~Charles Dickens

*First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.~Haile Gebrselassie

*How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.”~~Robert Brault