Quotes About Self-doubt

I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.

I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn't trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don't want to be that senselessly fearful ever again.

And I don't blame him. I don't even trust me.

Stevie stared out the front window for several seconds ruminating on that bit of information before admitting, "Dear God. I'm terrified of myself.

When a nice girl overcompensates, her behavior says, "What I have to offer isn't enough, and who I am isn't enough.

He felt as if he stood at the very top of a high cliff. Take a step back and all was safe and familiar. But going forward required a singular leap of faith—and he was a man of little faith, particularly when it came to himself. But he wanted her to look at him again as if he were full of possibilities. As if they were full of possibilities.

P.S. I fear that in person I shall prove to be a sore disappointment. With pen and paper I am at ease; in the solitude of my own company my thoughts and ideas flow without obstruction. But before others it takes me the greatest effort to string two words together, and more often than not my words emerge awkward and off-putting.

We will probably have the nagging feeling that we are not doing things right. This is good because confronting our negative feelings and our fear of incompetence can help us begin analysis.

As God as my judge, I don't know where I went wrong!

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I don't do what I love to do a lot of the time.

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

i'm okay.. is that what you really want me to say?

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

Do you love me for me?... I don't even love me for me.

I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

Roger is a powerful, confident, good-looking man kept awake at nights by the heart-gripping fear that other people don't think he is powerful, confident, and good-looking.

These tests, though, were making her feel like a moron.

Why not?" He mocked himself for the morbid vigil he had spent in probing and vainly binding the wounds of his false pride.

I found myself burning up, mentally. Fucking weakling, I told myself, fucking loser. I started to spiral, not just hating myself, but hating myself for hating myself.