Quotes About Insecurity

The exhausting manipulation and control it takes to protect an identity based on circumstances will crush our hearts and hide the best of who we are behind a wall of insecurity.

Friendships are like plowed open fields ready for growth. What we plant is what will grow. If we plant seeds of reassurance, blessing, and love, we reap a great harvest of security. Of course, if we plant seeds of backbiting, questioning, and doubt, we reap a great harvest of insecurity.

People aren't thinking about us nearly as much as we might think they are.

Labels start out as little threads of self dissatisfaction but ultimately weave together into a straightjacket of self-condemnation

Feeling unglued is really all I've ever known. And I'm starting to wonder if maybe it's all I'll ever be.

Rejection steals the security of all we thought was beautiful and stable and leaves us scared and fragile and more vulnerable than ever.

Lord, have mercy on all that jiggles on me. And my soul. And my obviously whacked-out brain.

Don't let people's compliments go to your head, and don't let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you'll be ruled by what other people think of you.

A girl without a daddy felt to me like a girl without a place in this world. After all, if he couldn't love me, who would ever love me?

when my identity is tied to circumstances I become extremely insecure because circumstances are unpredictable and ever-changing.

Dear Lord, I struggle caring too much about the opinions of others. I beg You to please whisper words of truth into my heart and mind today. Protect me from both the bad and good opinions of others as I am reminded that only Your opinion counts. In Jesus' name. Amen.

I tried to prop up what was left of me so I wouldn't collapse into the broken place inside. Good grades. Achievements and accolades. Fun friends and good times. Boys who made me feel special. I tried to steady myself with anything that helped me feel better.

People in everyday life can sniff out the neediness of a performer trying to earn love.

Because rejection is an abstract word that doesn't have an image attached to it, I

Fear isn't something you can sweep up into a pile and discard. It isn't physical. It hovers and haunts us in the spiritual realm. It attacks us in the unseen.

Self-rejection paves the landing strip for the rejection of others to arrive and pull on up to the gates of our hearts.

Rejection always leaves the deepest, darkest marks.

On the other hand, when I change to a growth mind-set, I don't chain my identity to my insecurity.

On the other hand, when I change to a growth mind-set, I don't chain my identity to my insecurity. Instead, I chain my identity to the Word of God that breathes hope and powerful potential back into any situation.

We get empty when we park our minds on comparison thoughts and wallow in them.

We must let our identity, not our insecurity, be the first thing that walks into every situation we face—every decision we make.

when someone of great significance in our lives makes us feel like our belonging is more of a question mark than a security blanket, we become very sensitive to even the slightest hints of rejection.

Rejection isn't just an emotional feeling. It's a message that alters what you believe about yourself.

Girls who have the lingering whispers of rejection still echoing in the hollows of their soul rarely feel completely held safe.