Quotes About Insecurity

We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.

Though Mrs. Fontaine smiled, I couldn't help but wonder if she'd sized me up and found me lacking.

Because I was aware of all the mistakes I'd make, because he'd be aware, because pride got in the way, because he was already so much better than me at so many countable things.

You just don't want me to realize how old you actually are when I see a picture of you in line for Return of the Jedi ." --Dr. Julian Piet (Quoter's note: Damn, it hurts most when they don't mean it. I resemble that remark!! =( )

I'm scared of the unknown future.

I have cried over myself a hundred times this summer, she thought, I have wept over my big feet and my skinny legs and my nose, I have even cried over my stupid shoes, and now when I have true sadness there are no tears left.

Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

Children who feel unloved and unprotected are like a half-filled cup. They become incapable of 'filling up' because they have come to believe they are unworthy of love. They try to please others, give to others, and care for others in a desperate hope that they may make themselves worthy.

What scares you?" "That I won't be taken seriously because I can't write my name in the snow.

What every man longs to be is also his greatest fear.

If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.

Janelle woke up, terrified. This wasn't that unusual. Janelle was terrified over lots of stuff...spiders, hamsters, people. As a little girl, she once called 911 to report that her shadow was following her.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.

She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears

Novalee Nation, seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight – and superstitious about sevens – shifted uncomfortably in the seat of the old Plymouth and ran her hands down the curve of her belly.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.

Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.

Since I was , I've had that feeling of, 'Am I enough? Am I worthy? Am I supposed to be here?' And my culture and society is telling me that I'm actually not in a lot of ways - unless I have this amount of money, or I'm in this kind of car and I have this kind of job, or I'm famous, or whatever.

It's a very working-class thing, to get where you want and then not feel worthy.

This constant need for dominance and strength, having walls up, this kind of silent broker cowboy who needs to have something that can be redeemed before he is actually worthy of love, there is a missing piece to that strength.

Not everyone will see your beauty, and not everyone will find you attractive or believe you are worthy of their clothing or publications.

I always make things worse than they are or create problems that aren't there. And going and doing some simple task becomes a problem. I start imagining problems that aren't there. What people are going to think, who's going to judge me and am I going to be good enough? Am I worthy?