Quotes About Self-doubt

It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'

I used to believe that George Michael was a total actor. It was self-defeating, because it made me also feel fraudulent.

I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.

It would be a very good thing if occasionally I thought I knew what I was doing.

I cannot hardly speak to myself let alone to him. I feel the world is against me and at the same time I feel miserably at odds with everything. I have the awkward sense that if I open my mouth people will know me for the villain I am. At the same time, or in the next breath, tears keep surging up into my eyes, tears of some righteousness, because my mind keeps rising to righteousness. All in all I am like a ragged wind in a tangled hedge.

Sometimes Emma wondered whether the Hairdresser had also given her a system reboot that night in the hotel and restored her emotional hard drive to its factory settings. And clearly she was a dud: defective goods that unfortunately couldn't be exchanged

She seemed to love beautiful, delicate things, and I wondered if she had lived, would she have loved me, too, ugly as I was?

Together, those inaccurate messages, through lifelong repetition, have created every negative belief you have about yourself today. Your self-doubts, your imagined inadequacies, most of your fears, and everything you believe incorrectly about who you are today, are the result of the repetition of inaccurate messages to your brain.

Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.

Okay, okay, I can do this, Jane said to herself. Of course I can do this. I should be used to making a fool out of myself by now. This will be the last big one. Just three weeks and then I can leave this part of myself behind and get on with my life. And maybe it'll be fun. It might even be fun.

Oh, it's not that I don't care about her, or anyone else." Ani thought perhaps it was that she cared too much. She was constantly worried about what others thought of her, and how every word she spoke could condemn her further. Ani thought how to explain that to Selia and decided that she could not. Selia's ease with strangers and friends alike made Ani sure she would not understand.

Be the dress, she told herself. Be the bonnet, Jane. Stage fright, that's all this is. I'm just afraid of looking like a fool. So stop it. Admit that you are a fool already and do this so you can let it go.

Bad writers don't practice, Stella. It's the good ones who care enough to try, who worry about getting the words just right. You are probably better than you think" -Papa

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

Exactly what was wrong with her? And could she pass it on to any children she may have?

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it's my voice this time and it's asking a question: How does she know?

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow.

Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.