Quotes About Insecurity

People's need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important, is the best kind of weakness to exploit. First, it is almost universal; second, exploiting it is so very easy.

Pay attention to those above you for signs of insecurity and envy. They will inevitably have a track record of firing people for strange reasons. They will not seem particularly happy with that excellent report you turned in. Always play it safe by deferring to bosses, making them look better, and earning their trust. Couch your brilliant ideas as their ideas. Let them get all the credit for your hard work. Your time to shine will come

When you show yourself in the world and display your talents, you naturally stir up all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity.

Test for Envy

People who are envious cannot help feeling some glee when they hear of the bad luck of those they envy.

The Laws of Human Nature, 10: Beware the Fragile Ego—The Law of Envy

In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy?

Really, take it from me: it is always the unknown that is most frightening.

She held herself with a grace and air of command that made him feel awkward and stumble-footed. She was barely tall enough to come up to his chest, but her presence was such that her height seemed the proper one, and he felt ungainly in his tallness.

Stop sucking your finger," Gawyn said with a grin. "We know you are a pretty little girl; you do not need to prove it to us.

Or maybe you think you aren't worth loving? Is

What Cathy took from her rejection experience was self-doubt. Until this current traumatic hospitalization, Cathy hadn't realized the fear she was carrying around, how burdened she was by it, and how that fear kept her in a mode where she had to continuously prove her value to others and herself.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing

We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.

not sure of much of anything these days. Maybe that's why I talk so much.

I'm not sure of much of anything these days. Maybe that's why I talk so much.

When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out. That's never the way.

When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out.

Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure that you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all…You fix things that don't need fixing, and chase after imaginary ailments. You jump to wild conclusions and build all kinds of errors into the machine because of your own nervousness. These errors, when made, tend to confirm your original underestimation of yourself.

Part of the prejudice thing is that the victim has to be somebody weaker than you in numbers, but somebody you secretly admire or fear.

Today, much of the global economy is based on debt and confidence. As long as we all keep holding hands and no one breaks ranks, everything will be fine. By the way, the word fine is my acronym for Feeling Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional.

Our doubts often paralyze us.

It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-con dence.

It doesn't take much education, but those doubts are cripplers for most people.