Quotes About Insecurity

Always the most beautiful girl in the room," Kimmie said. "No wonder everyone hates you.

Both have trouble working up the nerve to go into the Little Theater of Hurt Feelings.

Sure, sure, I suppose I could go for someone safe," she says. "But I've never felt like this before. Never." But no one is safe, I want to tell her. Safe?

Why would you ruin my best thing?

When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.

I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

It scared me to need anyone so much. if our souls became inextricably tangled, would mine still be mine? Did I care?

When the borderline is alone, continuity and connectedness cease. Like sand falling through her fingers, her confidence - even her sense of reality - slip away.

I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

Everything about my mother was a source of prepubescent agony. On the low end of the Mortification Scale there was her name: Floncey.

From diapers on, I felt like there was something not good about me, but it was invisible to everybody but my mother. And whenever she looked at me, she had to let me know that she knew. That was her mission in life.

I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in.

They weren't misguided, these men who couldn't take a hint, who kept at a woman who was clearly uninterested. They were broken. Few of them would go so far as kidnapping, sure, but every one of them was after someone they could make feel less than, someone they imagined was beneath them, and they believed every woman was beneath them.

I had discovered that Lucy, despite her tough demeanor, was actually quite insecure; she really needed to be dominated.

Ask her to play a role—she was happy. Ask her to be Lucille Ball and she immediately became self-conscious and ill at ease.

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

According to 2015 census figures, among older women living alone, more than one in six are below the poverty line. Nearly twice as many elderly women in America are poor (2.71 million) than their male counterparts (1.49 million).

I tell you that I like being this close to you and how you feel against me. But now even I'm hesitant. I'm afraid that when we hit the ground, this will be over. We'll land and this feeling between us will vanish. That you won't feel it any longer. I can't stand that thought.

but we can't allow ourselves to do the work for bullies. Give a girl an insult, she'll feel bad for a day, but teach her to hate her body, she'll feel bad forever.