Quotes About Insecurity

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

When you're a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

Being a teenager it's nearly impossible to find someone who is truly there for you. A lot of teenagers still don't know themselves.

I guess I'm just tired, I'm tired of being bi...ed at behind my back, of being laughed at, of being made fun of, feeling ugly, of being ignored, of feeling unloved, of no one caring, of pretending to be happy when all I want to do is cry.

She's so sick of never being beautiful enough. Never being stronger, or better. She's sick of going home everyday, and wishing she was someone else. For once she wants to look in the mirror and be happy for what she sees. She's so sick of everyone telling her You can do so much better than that. Maybe she can't. And people talking behind her back. She's sick of people bringing her down and telling her that isn't good enough. But I guess all she really wants....is to be more than second best...

Someone ask me out. I'm tired of being fugly and lonely.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

I love when I upset people by being happy shows how little self confidence they have...

Gilberte belonged, during those years at least, to the most widespread variety of human ostriches, the kind that bury their heads not in the hope of not being seen, which they consider highly improbable, but in the hope of not seeing that they can be seen, which seems to them something to the good and enables them to leave the rest to chance.

jealousy belonging to that family of unhealthy doubts far more easily removed by the vigor of an affirmation than by its plausibility.

When you come to live with a woman, you will soon cease to see anything of what made you love her; though it is true that the two sundered elements can be reunited by jealousy.

Live with a woman altogether and you will soon cease to see any of the things that made you love her; though I must add that these two sundered elements can be reunited by jealousy

not nearly smart enough for such a very smart man.

É admirável como o ciúme, que passa o tempo a fazer pequenas suposições do que é falso, tem pouca imaginação quando se trata de descobrir o que é verdadeiro.

O]ur 'inferiors,' who love us...take pleasure in wounding us in our self-esteem.

my friends would say to me, You, insecure, when you're that beautiful? I would reply, The one has nothing to do with the other.

Las mujeres de mi especie saben entornar los ojos y les quedó el hábito ancestral de mirar por sobre el hombro. Es que una rara y contradictoria seguridad va plasmada a esos ojos y eso es lo único que hace tolerable la inseguridad cósmica que da el existir.

It's strange that the only certainty life gives us is one we fear so much.

I hated myself for being so weak. I seemed to have no real personality of my own. Gaby was the mirror in which I saw myself.

You don't lack motivation; you lack confidence in success—and that drives your motivation elsewhere, to avoid the feeling or the fear.

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.

It is quite possible for leaders to become self-promoting without realizing it. Over time, defending their reputation becomes important to retaining and growing control. They become harder to disagree with because of the combination of the control they exert within the formal structure and the relational support they can gather privately outside of it.