Quotes About Insecurity

Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.

I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

I felt like I was in the wrong body, especially when you're considered a sex symbol.

Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

No one should have to go to school with a bulletproof backpack or be afraid to go to synagogue or church or a restaurant.

It feels like my hard work has paid off, but at the same time, I still have the impostor, you know, syndrome. I still feel like I'm going to wake up, and everybody's going to see me for the hack I am.

I have that imposter syndrome.

As I got older, I knew my syndrome wasn't going away. It was a hard pill to swallow. I wanted to look like everyone else and blend in, and I couldn't find a way to make that happen. I couldn't blame the doctors or my parents, so I blamed myself.

I still deal with impostor syndrome. It's a very real thing.

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.

I sort of have imposter syndrome, and I think when is this all going to end, when are they going to realise that I'm not a proper TV presenter.

I am a big self-doubter. I suffer from Impostor Syndrome. Whenever I start a new job, I think: 'I'm going to be found out.' I don't have a huge ego or enormous belief in my own talent.

I suffer from imposter syndrome all the time. Even if I'm just at a party, I'm thinking people are going to find out that I'm really boring.

How long have we got to talk about women of colour and imposter syndrome. It's a real thing, and many people have it. It's, I think, a particular characteristic of the overachiever. Because you're bottomless, you never think what you've achieved is enough.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

Some feeling had started in my stomach and was traveling up to my face, and I knew that when it got there I would turn bright red and hear the ocean, which is what happens when I get put on the spot. If I don't cry, I turn red and hear the ocean. It's a lose-lose situation.

Her lids tremble and her eyeballs look like they might disappear into her head.

Some of them are okay, but the popular girls like to pick on my sister, and almost all the guys are gross. I don't know why guys are like that. Do you?

My skin's too white." she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.