Healthy self-esteem and self-confidence can help you lead a more fulfilling life. Self-esteem and self-confidence overlap, but they are different. Self-esteem refers to whether you appreciate and value yourself. ... It's normal to feel quite confident in some circumstances and less confident in others.

Can you have high self-esteem but low confidence?

Some people have very good self-esteem and yet lack in confidence whilst others are incredibly confident but have very low self-esteem, in fact if someone is extremely confident then low self-esteem can be very well hidden.

Does high self-esteem mean confidence?

If we have high self-esteem, we feel good about ourselves. And if we feel confident, we feel like there are things we're good at. We can all feel like this at times, but when we feel like this for a long time, it can become a problem. ...