Quotes About Insecurity

It's one of the two major fears of people. 'Cause one is social humiliation. And the other is something like mortality and death.

Her house was built on a foundation of sand. The ice she was skating on was simply too thin. She fell through, into the water below, and is drowning.

would inevitably provide him with an insulting nickname. They called me Howdy-Doody, after I was accepted as a crew member (something I am still slightly embarrassed to admit). When I asked the originator why he chose that

I rolled up my sleeve. Penned on my arm in my own writing: If I prove I'm not selfish, Daniel will love me.

Eventually Young Vic would have ditched me for someone with a bunch of piercings and an edgy record collection, if I didn't take off with a pseudo-intellectual political activist first.

Others...are so sure the world is full of nothing but bullies that they become bullies themselves, trying to hit everyone in the world first. But a life of getting in the first shot isn't a life. Not really, anyway.

I don't feel brave. I feel like a galloping idiot, stumbling from crisis to crisis, barely able to speak to any normal person

Uno de los problemas de hoy es que los necios y los fanáticos están siempre seguros de sí mismos, mientras que los sabios están llenos de dudas.

Reverenciará a su más cruel adversario, si éste se encumbra; desdeñará a su mejor amigo si nadie lo elogia. Su criterio carece de iniciativas. Sus admiraciones son prudentes.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

Like most of those who seek to harm the weak, he's a coward at heart.

Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

demons of fear and disorder

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing

Do you think I did this alone? Do you think you're safe within your own Clan?" He coughed, spitting out clots of blood, and added, "Think again!

Sometimes," Cinderpaw told her. "But only to keep me quiet." She looked at the ground. "Actually, I don't think he likes having me around." "Nonsense!

Ravenpaw bounded over before Firepaw could reply. "What's going to happen now?" he wailed, his fur fluffed up in alarm and his eyes wider than ever.

Sorry. I've been in a foul mood since you left. I'm no better than a jealous kit.

She worries too much. She thinks if I breathe too hard I'm going to be crippled for life.