Quotes About Insecurity

I lived in constant terror of being asked a question in class. Even if I knew the answer, I was never able to tell it before the class.

Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.

It took a lot for me to be able to say that I'm a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.

It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Partly James was jealous because he was a virgin, but mostly it just felt really weird being in a room with two people who'd spent the night having sex. It reminded him of the feeling you get when you pull a hair off your tongue and realise it's not one of your own.

I hate auditioning. I just can't do it. I get so nervous, like cripplingly nervous. I'm bad at them, and I feel awful afterward.

I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.

Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.

Magnum condoms are a marketing gimmick, because what guy is going to admit he doesn't require them? "No thanks. They're so big on me, I need to use a twist tie."

Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.

You're not too tall," Dunk blurted out. "You're just right for …" He realized what he had been about to say, and blushed furiously. "For?" said Tanselle, cocking her head inquisitively. "Puppets," he finished lamely.

The last time I checked, relevance wasn't a fruit of the Spirit. For those who place such a premium on looking like, acting like, and sounding like the world, it should come as no surprise that they have no influence on the world. They often confuse acceptance by the world around them with actual Kingdom results in impacting their world. It is as though there is a deep insecurity at the root, and they are desperate to prove that you can be "Christian and cool.

We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.

Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

Mean To His Horses seeks the approval of others, and not finding it, heaps it upon himself.

Regression is defined here as a psychological retreat to a prior stage of development in order to reduce fear and foster an illusion of security.