Quotes About Insecurity

The truth is, if we become comfortable with who we are rather than who we think we should be, then we will be less insecure.

I'm nothing, not a single thing. The only particle I had, the only tiny thing raising me up, is that I was Ed Slaterton's girlfriend, loved by you for like ten secs, and who cares, so what, and not anymore so how embarrassing for me.

This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed this over. This unites us, this part of love.

They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge.

I wanted to know the truth, and yet I was afraid of what I might learn.

how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They're people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.

The more she talked that way, the worse I felt. She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. I was a blundering adolescent in her eyes, and she was trying to let me down easy.

fear of being revealed as a man walking on stilts among giants is understandable. Failure at this point would destroy him.

Agora, cada vez que nos vemos, depois que deixo você, vou para casa com um sentimento miserável de que sou lenta e estúpida sobre tudo. Repenso coisas que disse e arranjo respostas brilhantes e espirituosas que deveria ter dito e tenho vontade de me chutar porque não as mencionei quando estávamos juntos.

Eu me encontro querendo impressionar você de uma maneira que nunca pensei em fazer antes, mas estar com você debilitou minha autoconfiança. Eu questiono meus motivos agora, de tudo que faço.

My confused feeling for her had been holding me back, and I had to clung to her out of my fear of being forced out on my own, and cut adrift.

And so it went. Most of them felt the way Joe and Frank and Gimpy did. It had been all right as long they could laugh at me and appear clever at my expense, but now they were feeling inferior to the moron. I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies. I had betrayed them, and they hated me for it.

I've got to realize that when they continually admonish me to speak and write simply so that people who read these reports will be able to understand me, they are talking about themselves as well. But still it's frightening to realize that my fate is in the hands of men who are not the giants I once thought them to be, men who don't know all the answers.

I guess Nemur's fear of being revealed as a man walking on stilts among giants is understandable. Failure at this point would destroy him.

Cada passo em frente era um cuidado. Em que ponto o chão cederia e me afundaria em ansiedade?

Sometimes I wonder: Do I want to gel well? Is all this fear, all this shit I'm going through now worth it? Or should I bury myself back here in the brain and forget about it?" "What's your answer?" "I don't know.

I don't agree that I have a lot of confidence.

The root cause of superstition is lack of self-confidence.

I never had a lot of confidence in myself.

As Americans, there are very few things we have confidence in.

When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.

I didn't have much confidence in myself…never.

I don't have the confidence to pull off a mustache.

I struggled with my confidence a lot.