Quotes About Insecurity

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

The proud hate pride - in others.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man is by necessity uncertain.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Security is a kind of death.

Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

Superiority is always detested.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.