Quotes About Insecurity

Being a person means never being sure that you're one.

Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck?

Fear is not born in a vacuum. It is born as the slightest…insecurity in your heart is eaten away.

Because I did not know who I was, any image of myself, no matter how grotesque, had power over me.

There is only one thing you have to know about the future: everything gets worse.

Fanny had little or no self-esteem on her best days, and courage was another commodity she had precious little experience with. She dropped to her knees and prayed with all her heart for both. It was clear to her that divine intervention was the only way she would be able to rejoin that insufferable Argus Winslow and the dreadful waitress.

A desire for recognition emerges at the same time as a sense of inferiority.

people who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.

Jack, the world is full of people who can only feel big by making other people look small, and the bigger the target, the better they feel about it.

Like many weak men, he made a great ceremony of personal strength and power.

The Americans are always investigating one another, it was their national sport.

It was so strange, how much fear there was in the world, and the most fearful of all were so often those who held the power in their hands.

people are insecure, they're not at their best. If they don't feel like they have the respect of their peers or their boss, they try to boost themselves through self-promotion. Instead of focusing on their work and feeling good about what they produce, they get sidetracked worrying about what other people think.

when people are insecure, they're not at their best. If they don't feel like they have the respect of their peers or their boss, they try to boost themselves through self-promotion. Instead of focusing on their work and feeling good about what they produce, they get sidetracked worrying about what other people think.

Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.

He was as nervous as a praying mantis at an atheists' picnic...

Io? Io rappresento incertezza, insicurezza, sorpresa, disordine, assenza di legge, cattivo gusto, divertimento e ciò che di notte fa bum.

Claude believed that only smart, attractive people had the right to fuck, and it sincerely hurt him when he discovered evidence to the contrary.

Uncertainty is the normal state.

He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience would provide the right one. There was no end to that, and Moon fearfully glimpsed himself as a pure writer who after a lifetime of absolutely no output whatsoever, would prepare on his deathbed the single sentence which was the distillation of everything he had saved up, and die before he was able to utter it.

Kad u glavi imamo re?enice, mislio sam, još uvek nemamo odlu?nost i da ih stavimo na papir. Re?enice nas plaše, najpre nas plaši misao, onda re?enica, naposletku to što tu re?enicu možda više nemamo u glavi kada ho?emo da je zapišemo. Vrlo ?esto neku re?enicu prerano zapišemo, neku, opet, prekasno; re?enicu moramo da zapišemo u pravom trenutku, ina?e je zauvek izgubljena.

You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.

Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.