Quotes About Insecurity

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

You know how many stunning women told me they can't stand a good-looking man? ... Women feel secure with an ugly guy because a man in bad shape isn't gonna cheat.

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start dropping.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.

Envy is a kind of praise.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Doubt breeds doubt.

Fear breeds fear.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.