Times where somebody tells another that "You Are Better Than You Think You Are" in Visual Novels.
- In the True Ending of 7 Days of Rose, Michael convinces Rose that she's been an incredibly strong girl to have put up with her Abusive Parents for as long as she has without breaking, especially with a public act of defiance prior to the story's climax. He throws in a You Are Not Alone by offering to be someone she can lean on as well as telling her there's no shame in reaching out for help and seeing a therapist.
- Ace Attorney:
- In the ending of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All, Miles Edgeworth does this with his adoptive sister Franziska, as she is about to quit being a prosecutor because she doesn't believe she can change for the better the way that Edgeworth did, which is something that Edgeworth refuses to agree with.
- Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth:
- In the fourth case of the second game, Miles repeatedly reassures an amnesiac Kay of this, even when she's convinced that she killed somebody and just can't remember.
- He also encourages Sebastian Debeste after they suffer some serious blows to their self-esteem in the final case. This pays off.
- In the final trial of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Hajime is faced with a seemingly unwinnable dilemma: either shut down the virtual reality him and his friends are in, destroying the Junko AI that's been behind everything at the cost of returning to their old selves and deleting his own existence, or picking the Graduate option, allowing them all to escape the system with their memories intact but allowing the AI to take over the bodies of their comatose friends and once again wreak havoc on the world. Faced with this, he caves, unable to choose. That's when he's met by Chiaki, who snaps him out of his funk and encourages him to have confidence in himself. That he has to do this for the sake of no one but himself. Not to sacrifice himself for the greater good, but to create his own future after being dragged around and manipulated by everyone else for so long, one where he and his friends manage to escape and survive. Those turn out to be the exact words he needs.
- Dracu-Riot!: In Elina's route, the rest of the main girls encourage Yuuto and Elina in this fashion.
- Dysfunctional Systems: During Episode 1, Winter starts talking about how stupid she is, only for Cyrus to reassure her that while she might be hard-headed, she's also smart and strong and capable of surviving the crisis they're currently facing, coming out all the stronger for it. If you opt to "Show him your determination" in the Dialogue Tree, he'll elaborate further on this.
- Fate/stay night: Following Archer's betrayal, Shirou encourages Rin not to give up despite the obvious setback.
- Hatoful Boyfriend: After Yuuya makes several self-deriding comments about himself (if you choose to meet with him at the Shrine in Holiday Star), Hiyoko more or less says this to him word for word."I think you're a better person than you think you are, Yuuya! Sakuya and the doctor are always chewing you out, but you shouldn't let that get you down. Just do your thing and be yourself."
- Nicole: The titular character works to beat this into the head of whatever Love Interest the player pursues.
- Sunrider 4: The Captain's Return: When Asaga pushes herself to the brink of death protecting Kayto from the Prototypes, a guilt-stricken Kayto, at Claude's suggestion, goes to the unconscious Asaga to confess his shortcomings. He admits that he's been using her and the other girls to validate himself, that he lost faith in his friends and lashed out at Sola during his exile, and that his whole quest to save the galaxy from Crow Harbor was just a way to restore his reputation and soothe his bruised ego. He claims that he isn't a hero, just a coward and a failure who acts like one. Then Asaga wakes up and assures him that he's wrong about himself. Kayto is the only reason that the crew is still alive and has gotten as far as it has. He's survived battles and achieved victories that nobody else could possibly pull off. He may not have the Sunrider anymore, and he may have had more losses than victories lately, but that doesn't matter: so long as he believes in himself and keeps moving forward, he is the hero that he makes himself out to be.
- In Tokimeki Memorial 2, this is, in essence, the line that definitely snaps Kaori Yae out of her Heroic BSoD, in her mandatory event:Kaori: That's why... That's why, I'm like this cherry tree. Unable to bloom... Just a bothersome being...
Protagonist: That's not true! After all, that tree is blooming. It's just blooming a little later than the others.
Kaori: But... Even if it's blooming...
Protagonist: It's fine if it's blooming late. Even if it were to hurry and bloom, if it doesn't produce a nice color and smell, it would mean nothing.
Kaori: ...(Ah!)
Protagonist: Yae-san, it's fine if you bloom at your pace.
