Quotes About Insecurity

My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle

I hate my jaw. I don't know if it's my dad's - I think I'm more like my mother, my littlest sister looks exactly like my dad and my middle sister is a mixture of the two.

The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

Only the insecure strive for security.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Your excuses are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.

I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.

For he or she that harbours no fear has never truly loved anything. You can only measure true love by the thought and fear of its loss.

Worry is to human beings … what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction.

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

I thought it was love, but it wasn't. It was a need to be the right girl for him. I just couldn't understand why I wasn't good enough, or how he could marry her.

I'm afraid I'll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I'm afraid I'll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.