Quotes About Insecurity

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

It's not attractive to be talking down about yourself all the time. All you continue to do to yourself is pull yourself further down into a deeper place of depression and sadness and insecurity and fear and hopelessness, so it's like, having God in your life is important, accepting who you are is important, regardless of what you look like.

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

Uncertainly always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.

Those who own much have much to fear.

Learning is easier if you are honest about your own ignorance. People want to seem in the know. They try to signal that they are intelligent and informed. This is often counterproductive. Insecurity is the enemy of learning. A master knows how to be a beginner.

Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

I had a few pimples here and there when I was 14. Never had braces though, thank God. A girl in my class had, like, the big helmet of head gear. I felt so bad for her. People always made fun of me enough because of my name.

Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

Of course, I peed my pants, everyone my age pees their pants. It's the coolest.

I was very, very underdeveloped for my age, I hated what I looked like, so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

You've gotten so caught up in being alone that you're afraid of what might happen if you actually find someone else that can take you away from it.

Hatred - The anger of the weak.

And of course Cecelia held some secret doubts about herself; you can't dislike nearly everybody and be quite certain that you have exempted yourself.