Quotes About Insecurity

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

There is a thin line between confidence, and arrogance. Sadly those people who have no confidence often confuse the two when confronted with a person who possesses belief in themselves.

If you fear it you believe in it

She can feel her vanished talent like a phantom limb, the empty ache of its subtraction from the short list of her assets, and she knows with spiteful certainty that it is gone for good.

It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing.

My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.

Guess what often brings about anxiety. The voices in your own head, also known as the inner critic or the critical inner voice.

Where shame is, there is also fear.

Our relationship with ourselves significantly affects how we interact with other people. Our self-esteem frequently depends on how we feel we are "doing" at relationships. Given that this fluctuates, so does our self-esteem. Intellectually, we may tell ourselves that it shouldn't, but when have emotions ever obeyed the intellect?

Although at the age of twenty-eight I had become preposterously famous, I was still partially gagged by the indoctrination of aggrieved lower-middle-class humility. In my work I had not dissembled, I was sure of that, but the nagging inheritance of 'Who do you think you are?' is hard to drown out in the presence of those who seem to have an ironclad awareness of who they are.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

He had a good heart, he wanted to help with the cattle work, he thought he was Head of Ranch Security, but he wasn't very smart and never understood why the cowboys were mad at him all the time." (regarding the original Hank the Cowdog)

God, I hate judgmental people. They're so mean...and fat.

Rather like "Orwellian", the term "Kafkaesque" has come to be used, often enough by those who have not read a word of Kafka , to describe what are perceived as typically or even uniquely modern traumas: existential alienation, isolation and insecurity, the labyrinth of state bureaucracy, the corrupt or whimsical abuse of totalitarian power, the impenetrable tangle of legal systems, the knock on the door in the middle of the night….

It's not just that I'm stupid; it's that I'm just smart enough to know how stupid I am. I wish I weren't so stupid. Or that I were stupider.

Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh?

The potential damage to America's national security as a result of Obama's "Russian reset" was incalculable.20

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

Addicting people to praise as a motivator puts them on a slippery slope toward a lifetime of fear and exploitation, always looking for some expert to approve of them.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

he saw the thin wrists that protruded inches out of his coat sleeves; and he wondered if he appeared as ludicrous to others as he did to himself.

Driving home, Tommy was aware of a sensation like that of a tire becoming flat, as though he had been filled—all his life—with some sustaining air, and it was gone now; he felt, increasingly as he drove, a sense of fear. He could not understand it.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.