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Quotes About Insecurity

I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.
~ J. K. Rowling
Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.
~ Jean Hersey
And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.
~ Jeff Daniels
I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
~ Jenna Fischer
I always wonder if what I'm wearing will be something that people would compliment, or want to wear. I don't ever get ready just for myself, ever.
~ Jessica Simpson
This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.
~ Jodi Picoult
People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.
~ John Waters
If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.
~ Joyce Meyer
People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I only wish I knew that you'd actually want to be with me when that time is over.
~ Kiera Cass
You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.
~ Libba Bray
I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.
~ Lily Allen
I was marrying someone I loved because I didn't want to lose them; I didn't see anything wrong with that.
~ Liza Monroy
This be OK?' I asked, innocently. 'You want me to have no skin left?' You rolled your eyes. Actually, don't answer that one.
~ Lucy Christopher
When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.
~ Luke Davies
I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.
~ Marian Keyes
No one really wants to be laughed at.
~ Micah Perks
The American media wants to pump you full of fear.
~ Michael Moore
I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.
~ Mila Kunis
The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.
~ Mira Grant
When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.
~ Neil Strauss
I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.
~ Nick Ferguson
Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
~ Patrick Ness