Quotes About Insecurity

You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster.

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.

I was given a tremendous gift in terms of athleticism. Maybe it was because I wasn't so confident in other areas.

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.

I dont have the confidence to be a personality.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.

I'm confident. Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.