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Quotes About Insecurity

Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me.
~ Sharon Van Etten
When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.
~ Robbie Robertson
I would leave halfway through a photoshoot, because I couldn't bear looking at myself or being in front of a camera. I used to feel disgusted in myself.
~ Jesy Nelson
I always tell people I'm not one of these guys that was, like, born with, like, a halfway decent body.
~ Max Greenfield
I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
~ Sam Jaeger
It really is amazing that some days you'll come out and you'll feel like you can beat anyone, and then some days you come out and you've got no confidence in the world, and you can't break an egg with a hammer.
~ Jason Day
If you can't trust your can open, then what?
~ Garrison Keillor (Author)
Tower, men have rejected me. -Perhaps they have their reasons, Bubba? -But I am of their kind. - Only in thought, word and deed. -You mean, tower, that though I think like a man and act like a man, they still do not like me? - Men do not like themselves very much, Bubba
~ Garry Douglas Kilworth
Odia lo suficiente y olvidarás que vives en el mierdero sin trabajo, sin seguro médico y con seguridad. Además de que eres un jodido estúpido sin esperanzas de nada
~ Garth Ennis
Giving verbal compliments is only one way to express words of affirmation to your spouse. Another dialect is encouraging words. The word encourage means "to inspire courage." All of us have areas in which we feel insecure. We lack courage, and that lack of courage often hinders us from accomplishing the positive things that we would like to do. The latent potential within your spouse in his or her areas of insecurity may await your encouraging words.
~ Gary Chapman
6   If I love them only when they meet my requirements or expectations, they will feel incompetent and will believe it is pointless to do their best, since it is never enough. They will always be plagued by insecurity, anxiety, low self-esteem, and anger. To guard against this, I need to often remind myself of my responsibility for their total growth. (For more on this, you will want to read How to Really Love Your Child by Ross Campbell.)
~ Gary Chapman
Please hang in there and do what is best for your children, knowing that your love will make the difference between children who are well-adjusted and happy and those who are insecure, angry, inaccessible, and immature.
~ Gary Chapman
I never felt loved by my parents. I first got involved in drinking because I wanted my friends to like me." In saying this, she wasn't trying to lay blame on her parents as much as she was trying to understand herself.
~ Gary Chapman
El potencial latente dentro de tu cónyuge en sus esferas de inseguridad quizá esté a la espera de tus palabras alentadoras.
~ Gary Chapman
The more passionate the defensive response, the more deeply self-worth has been threatened.
~ Gary Chapman
All of us have areas in which we feel insecure. We lack courage and that lack of courage often hinders us from accomplishing the positive things we would like to do.
~ Gary Chapman
The latent potential within your spouse in his or her areas of insecurity may await your encouraging words.
~ Gary Chapman
I didn't know it, but I was at war with myself and I was losing.
~ Gary R. Renard
Now he understood why he hated Luis Goodman and other writers so much. He was a damaged person, but not damaged enough to make a life out of it.
~ Gary Shteyngart
I am scared of the photo studio. I am scared of the telephone. Scared of anything outside our apartment. Scared of the people in their big fur hats. Scared of the snow. Scared of the cold. Scared of the heat. Scared of the ceiling fan at which I would point one tragic finger and start weeping. Scared of any height higher than my sickbed. Scared of Uncle Electric Current. Why was I so scared of everything? I ask my mother nearly forty years later. Because you were born a Jewish person, she says.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Wasn't that the whole point of Facebook, to demonstrate to your classmates that you were more than okay in the world?
~ Gary Shteyngart
Are people so unhappy when they love?' 'Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.
~ Gaston Leroux
Christine: 'Are people unhappy when they're in love?' Raoul: 'Yes, when they're in love and aren't sure of being loved.' Christine: 'Are you saying that for Erik?' Raoul: 'For Erik and for myself.
~ Gaston Leroux
Are people so unhappy when they love? Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.
~ Gaston Leroux