Quotes About Insecurity

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Our lives are never certain, even for an hour.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.

I think I look good out there. I'm strong, powerful, and artistic. But I have my doubts as much as anyone.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of "The Look."

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

The angry people are those people who are most afraid.

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

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

Truthfully, I'm incredibly shy, and I'm very awkward around boys.

As actors, you live in doubt; that's one of the truths of the particular job.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.