Quotes About Insecurity

The flea that doubts doesn't jump nearly as high

Lack of confidence in yourself, Can allow your enemies to hurt you easily.

Having confidence in yourself breaks the chain of doubt

The presence of confidence can make an unable man appear able. While its absence can make an able man appear unable.

Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds.

Fighting to fit in. Confidence is paper thin.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures ... they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.

Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.

At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

I never got into fights with kids about whose dad is bigger and who can beat up who. What am I going to say? My dad can kill your dad when he's asleep?

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.