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Quotes About Insecurity

You know you're awesome when people you don't even know hate you.
~ Unknown
Honestly, I'm scared that you'll get bored of me.
~ Unknown
I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.
~ Diane Sawyer
I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.
~ Helene Cixous
Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
~ William Goldman
His is the same fear most everyone has, everyone for me for the fact that I cannot.
~ K. Weikel, Building Monsters
How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.
~ Unknown
You don't have any weaknesses.""I have one." He glanced at her.
~ Zoe Forward, His Witch to Keep
...this two-way hatred. I don't understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?
~ Unknown
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
~ Jean Anouilh
I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.
~ Judd Apatow
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.
~ Harvey Mackay
The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.
~ Robert Ringer
The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one's least impressive qualities.
~ Derren Brown
There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.
~ Unknown
Never underestimate the desire to bolt.
~ Pema Chodron
Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
~ William James
We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.
~ Pankaj Mishra
The worst is not always certain but it's very likely.
~ French proverb
To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.
~ Unknown
I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.
~ Leslie Nielsen
It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
~ Vin Diesel