Quotes About Insecurity

When we strive to impress or outdo others, we strengthen the underlying belief that we are not good enough as we are.

Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life.

Most people who stay do it because they're afraid to leave, and most people who leave do it because they're afraid to stay. If you stop and think about it you'll find that fear is the motivating factor for most decisions people make in their lives

You can laugh," she said with angry eyes. "You know how I feel when I'm here? Black and desperate. You don't know what it's like to be standing in the line to get in to see him.

I had been in kindergarten when I figured out that I wasn't pretty. That is the worst thing about being a little kid; nobody is shy about letting you know these things.

Once he said to his mother, "Do not ask me what is wrong with me, for I do not know. When I reach into my mind I encounter nothing but

Armamos a los que odiamos, con armas sobrenaturales, y nos achicamos en su presencia, y así al final, no son ellos los que nos conquistan, sino, nosotros mismos.

It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

I have such trust complexes. I'm close to, like, two people.

It was a time of great loneliness. He had a group of friends, and suddenly I had no one and did not understand why. I felt excluded. Some days, the majority was in high school and did not know who to talk to. And that is something really terrible when you're twelve years old.

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.

How many abused souls—dogs and humans alike—have remained in an unloving place because staying was far less terrifying than leaving?

I'm not too bad at reading, but I've got a bit of a confidence problem with speaking, with going from Scouse to Spanish.

When I was younger, there was that desire to be cool and to fit in and to look a certain way. And I was quite an introverted kid who wrote plays in her spare time, so I didn't feel very cool.

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

I've always been a horrible public speaker. If I had to give a presentation, I would cry.

I didn't think I was much of a public speaker.

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.