Quotes About Insecurity

Maslow was right... Insecurity is main source of ego and aggression... Achievements and success leads to humbleness... It takes a lifetime... to understand nothing matters..

Achievement and fearfulness can't stay together.

Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.

Confident sheep overcome insecure wolves.

If people are jealous of you, it means you are worth something.

Don't try to fly if you are worry about landing on the earth.

Measure your success by the number of people who envy you.

I have battled with loneliness. I have battled with insecurity and rootlessness. But I have never given up the struggle. I have never quit trying in life.

Half our fears are baseless the other half discreditable.

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

There's a lot of fear - in fact, teachers and parents are calling it the Trump effect. Bullying is up. A lot of people are feeling, you know, uneasy. A lot of kids are expressing their concerns.

I don't like the way he looks at you." My stomach lurched. "What do you mean? How does he look at me?" "Like you're not a student and he's not a teacher.

O castigo dos desconfiados é suspeitar de tudo, dia e noite. Suspeitar até de si mesmos e das próprias suspeitas

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

You want to know what the real problem is? You use Elza as a scapegoat for all your insecurities. You've made her a bigger deal in your life than she ever was in mine. You never even knew her, but you project every doubt about yourself onto her... [Said Simon to Olivia]

it's your own fears that give them the power to chase you.

And my eyes, my mother gave me my eyes, no eyelids, as if they were carved on a jack-o'-lantern with two swift cuts of a short knife. I used to push my eyes in on the sides to make them rounder. Or I'd open them very wide until I could see the white parts. But when I walked around the house like that, my father asked me why I looked so scared.

Remember that envy is one of mankind's greatest flaws. It leads to recklessness in the one who envies and possessiveness in the one who has you by his side.