Quotes About Insecurity

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.

Happiness is when you see your husband's old girlfriend and she's fatter than you.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.

The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.

Lack of confidence is stunting if it stops us from achievement.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.

Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

In this world with starry dome,Floored with gemlike plains and seas,Shall I never feel at home,Never wholly be at ease?

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.