Quotes About Insecurity

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.

Everybody has had that experience of really wanting to do something and being afraid.

Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.

It's hard to say I don't like being famous, but how I feel is that I don't see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me.

You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

I am proud, but I'm annoyed with myself for not believing in myself enough.

Sometimes I doubt, and sometimes I believe. I like not making myself believe when I am doubting and not making myself doubt when I am believing.

You don't find me too bald, do you? Old, and bald, and with a belly?

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere.

I know what it's like to be young and to feel like you don't belong.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

I don't belong much anywhere.

I didn't really have much luck with women when I was younger, so on some level, I feel like I don't really belong.

Some people bought into the whole fame thing more than others, but I never did. I never felt I belonged; I wasn't confident.

that no trumpets could totally drown out the uncertain notes of the boy who doubted his place in the world.

The coward, then, is a despairing sort of person; for he fears everything," Aristotle wrote.

Those who are frightened of losing what they have are the most vulnerable, and it is difficult to be clear-headed when you believe that you are teetering on a precipice.

You combine insecurity and ambition, and you get an inability to say no to things.

Why?" I asked, "What are you looking for?" There was a short silence. And Toto softly said, "I want to see if people like me.

All violence {is} a person's attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

all violence being a person's attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose.