Quotes About Insecurity

Very thin ladies, any age, with hand sewing on them, have always frightened me, beginning with a rich great-aunt and her underwear embroidered by nuns. The more bones that show on women the more inferior I feel.

All successful revolutionary leaders have to worry about how to stabilise the new regimes that they create. After the American Revolutionary War, the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Gouverneur Morris had argued for the establishment of a hereditary senate in a still insecure United States quite as fervently as Bolívar did in Venezuela;

C'mon! Anything over eight inches is strictly for show-and-tell. It's there, but you can't use it. It might look good in a locker room, but let's face it—those extra two inches are leftovers." "Leftovers," Luna gasped, holding her stomach and shrieking with laughter. "Let's hear it for l-leftovers!

Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don't want to lose.

I'm filled with the age-old terror of making a mistake, looking foolish. How is it we all leave high school, but high school never leaves us? Bob

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.

Two people pass each other. As one looks upon the other's skin color, the other is looking back at their appearance. Both justifying, how better and righteous they are, in their own insecurities.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.

Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

Worrying is the greatest egoism!