Quotes About Insecurity

I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.

I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.

My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

The only thing that can stop you is the doubt that you carry in your mind.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self-esteem.

one man may insult fifty—it is the privilege of weakness.

I've worn that mask so long I don't feel safe without it.

Egotism fears its own self.

We tell them how good they are and they light up, eager to please, and try to please us some more. These are the children we should really worry about.

Nobody adopts antisocial behavior unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

Caminando sobre nuestras cuerdas flojas, llevamos nuestros miedos y fijaciones como armas desnudas, y los usamos tan rápida y mortalmente como Billy the kid usaba su revólver»

I was beginning to understand. My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things; that was why everything had to be perfect.

Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.

Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it became a way of life; the risks felt as natural as drawing a breath.