Quotes About Insecurity

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

I do think that the fear mentality - of scarcity - comes from within.

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.

I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.

I don't know if I personally instill a fear in people, but I think that there are things that I have been involved in that perhaps stir up their own personal fears.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

I know how Lupe Velez felt. You fight just so long and then you begin to worry about being washed up. You fear there's one way to go and that's down.

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear.

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

The strongest passion is fear.

I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.