Quotes About Insecurity

They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.

Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.

Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

I used to wear long jumpers, but they made me look like a bag tied up in the middle.

Sexuality is often tied in with something you feel you lack in yourself and look for in others.

I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.

The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage. Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident.

When you are constantly in pursuit of security, you are in pursuit of death, because life is never secure. It doesn't matter what you do

The planet is spinning on time: not a small event. All the galaxies are managing fine; the whole cosmos is doing great. But you have one nasty little thought crawling through your head, and it is a bad day! The problem is you are living in a psychological space that bears no connection with reality. And you are insecure, because it can collapse at any moment.

He that is jealous is not in love.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

When we're on the "me" plan, what others say about us has great power. A friend tells us we look good—our mind soars. A colleague tells us we're not pulling our weight at work—our mind sinks.

They are afraid to read out loud, fearful of being thought stupid or foolish or — what? I ask them. Girlish? Boring, says one Megan. (Which Megan? I can't remember.) This is a terrible fear, I know — this fear of not being interesting — of being trivial, not special. It is almost as great, I think, as their fear of standing out and being special.

I am terrified she will give up on me, that this thing will drive her away. Every depressive has that fear. Why would anyone want us? We don't even want ourselves. Sometimes, we try to drive the people who love us away. Not because we don't want them with us, but because we cannot bear for them to see what we have become.

it is easy for parents to pass on unnecessary guilt, shame, and insecurity to their children because we fear the rejection of critical and judgmental people in our lives. So if I can help other parents understand the profound importance of accepting children as they are, perhaps I can save those children from some of the anguish I felt for many years.

Doubt is a great worm in a crispy, red apple.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

A pinch of jealousy thickens the broth. —Venus's Love Notes

A pinch of jealousy thickens the broth.