Quotes About Insecurity

Writers come in two principal categories -- those who are overtly insecure and those who are covertly insecure.

I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.

If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

I have a fear of failure.

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

The fearful are the failing.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.