Quotes About Insecurity

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

If you have to tell someone you're powerful and famous, then either you aren't or you're embarrassingly insecure.

Cowardice was the fear of doing something because of the risk to one's personal safety—be it physical, emotional, or professional.

The only thing more humiliating than a detective who pisses his pants is one who can't be more than five feet away from a toilet for fear he'll shit himself.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em.

They had no confidence in themselves and even less in their own kind.

Some folks can't hide things. They don't have enough, not enough money or influence or shame.

She had always been far too afraid of losing her husband, or more properly, the financial parasol North had maintained over her head.

He said they were afraid, and that fear makes stupid people do wicked things

she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.

I'm not smart, Snicket. I don't ask the right questions and I never find the right answers.

La timidez es algo curioso, por que, al igual que las arenas movedizas, se apodera de las personas en cualquier momento y, también como las arenas movedizas, hace que sus víctimas miren hacia abajo.

she still had that fundamental insecurity that one bout of poverty can inflict for a lifetime, and no amount of money remedy.

She was beautiful, and Tristan was willing to bet she didn't think so. The truly beautiful ones never did.

There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

No Swifty's meant no job for Mom. No job meant no money to pay the rent on our house.

You know the axiom that men don't like women who threaten them because they're too smart?

I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.

Notwithstanding these feelings of insecurity, which were especially obvious in the immediate aftermath of the war, the leaders of America's postwar foreign policy—a group that came to be known as the Establishment—developed a self-confidence that occasionally bordered on self-righteousness.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?