Quotes About Insecurity

I'm supposed to be this brilliant ThunderClan warrior, from a line of important ThunderClan warriors—so why do I feel so out of place?

How could she be scared of her own brother?

Is there something wrong with Bramblestar? Rootpaw asked himself. Or is there something wrong with me?

Pride glowed in Stormfur's eyes. "I wish I could believe it. But I'll never be half the warrior my father was.

Heat seared Bluefur's pelt, until she glanced down at her body, convinced she must be on fire. It vanished with a hiss. Would she ever have that much faith in herself?

Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

Dante said, I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off." That's because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he'll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

Fear secretes acids.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

She wore no make-up, and her small, tense face looked chronically embarrassed, as if it got attached by mistake to the wrong person.

I'm bad at some things." She raised an eyebrow. "Name one thing." Making you fall in love with me the way I've always been in love with you. You only ever saw the jock while you let those artist assholes chase you. And hurt you.

I think that when I wrote those early books I was timid. I still felt the incredible effrontery of announcing myself to the world (in part I mean the WASP world) as a writer and an artist. I had to touch a great many bases, demonstrate my abilities, pay my respects to formal requirements. In short, I was afraid to let myself go.

Yes," I said, because you can't show weakness to posh people or they'll mercilessly take advantage. I think it's something they learn at school in between conversational French and practical condescension.

Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. … That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

My mind is my Achilles's Heel." - The Tick

You think I look like a teletubby?

Sometimes I punch myself hard as I can Yelling "Nobody cares," hoping someone will tell me how wrong I am

So sure, I had to dig out of a little insecurity hole vocally, but I don't blame my parents for this. We are all a work in progress.

But then self-doubt has always been there for Billy, self-doubt and its cousin the berating voice, these faithful companions have always been on call to help him through the critical junctures of his life.

I noticed early that pompous people have actually less a high opinion of themselves than a desire to create such an opinion in others.

I wonder if we have it all backward. And I wonder how the world might be if we viewed the very reason for our existence as being not about control and security but about surrender. Not to our fears and insecurities but to our sense of what is possible, to the belief that we all have the ability to shape the world as we imagine it, and that our actions reflect this imagined world until it becomes not imagined, but real.

For this I find, where jealousy is fed, Horns in the mind are worse than on the head.