Quotes About Insecurity

Mutter ich bin dumm.

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

We have become so obsessed with rational knowledge, objectivity, and quantification that we are very insecure in dealing with human values and human experience. - Margaret M. Lock

Bored and insecure men will loose arrows at dust motes.

This man was my equal—no, I admitted grudgingly, my superior—and I hated him for it. I hated him because I knew that in his dream of power no one must suffer. I hated him because, once, I had been weak enough to share his feelings.

people who run must have something to run from, and half the time it's not there and half the time, of course, it is; only you never know which is which

Weak men in high positions surround themselves with little men, in order that they may seem great by comparison.

Fulton J. Sheen "Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked." ? Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

And yet perhaps this is the reason you cry, this the nightmare you wake screaming from: being forever in the pre-trembling of a house that falls.

I feel like there's a voice in my head, always, telling me every idea is brilliant, and another telling me every idea is the worst. And they argue in my head until somebody wins, until I solicit an audience to be, like, 'Will you help me figure this out? Is this the best or the worst idea?' And they tell me!

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

At Wisconsin, I wasn't working for people who believed in me.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.

I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not big... but less small.

I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn't. I wish I could've just let it slide and not cared about it.

I'm kind of feeling ashamed now that I never get bullied. Everyone keeps asking me, but I don't, and it's kind of annoying. I wish I could say I did get bullied, because then everyone would feel sorry for me.

I always think everyone else is funnier than me. I look at other comedians and I say, 'I wish I was that good.' People think I'm funny, and I say, 'I'm not.'

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.