Quotes About Insecurity

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

we all tend to criticize in others what we are most insecure about in ourselves.

He avoided eligible young women, too, because he was insecure in their presence and was afraid of failure and rejection in love.

They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)

That's not me anymore, I told you! I was a scared little girl, I thought— I thought if I knew all the rules, then that would mean—that would mean nothing would happen to me!

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

Fear is your worst enemy in dreams; if you allow it to persist, it will grow stronger and your self confidence as well as your lucidity will grow correspondingly weaker.

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.

Derision is the refuge of threatened ignorance, after all.

Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant.

Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem.

Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the "tribe" will desert us to die a sad, lonely death.

The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.

Lack of confidence is stunting if it stops us from achievement.

The greatest danger that success brings, aside from arrogance, is the fear of losing what has been gained. The courage and willingness to risk that breed success are endangered after success is obtained."26

The fact is, I am scared to death of women. They are an inscrutable species. I don't understand them. In my opinion, any guy who claims he understands women is either a fool or a liar.

As McChrystal took the lay of the land, "I felt like we were high-school students who had wandered into a Mafia-owned bar."34

Nobody is safe. Ever. Anywhere. I

People get jealous and use whatever information they have to make you feel bad and themselves feel better.

the number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear

No matter what they say, no matter what they do, no matter how many different ways they slice it, women like "Did I Marry a Man or a Boy?" feel like they just can't compete with The Other Woman—the mother.