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Quotes About Insecurity

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
~ Dalai Lama
I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.
~ Kanye West
There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
~ Scotty Bowman
What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.
~ Russell Simmons
Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
~ John Ortberg
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
~ John Lennon
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
~ Anais Nin
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.
~ Paul H. Dunn
There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding.
~ Michael Dolan
Behind a cold face there is always an insecure heart.
~ Paulo Coelho
When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.
~ Henri Nouwen
The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.
~ Charles Bukowski, Women
Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.
~ Frederick Lenz
Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained.
~ Frederick Lenz
Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.
~ Gary Zukav
Most unsuccessful people let their fears and doubts have the final say in how they live their lives.
~ Hal Elrod
I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'
~ Hugh Jackman
No one is guaranteed a job in this.
~ Jack Welch
Anybody who's really successful has doubts.
~ Jerry Bruckheimer
I'll probably be popped off by some loony.
~ John Lennon
There is no illusion greater than fear.
~ Lao Tzu
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.
~ Jean Vanier