Quotes About Insecurity

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

Fear and doubt are major stampeders.

This is the century of fear.

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

What is fear of need but need itself?

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.