Quotes About Self-doubt

The monsters were neverunder my bed.Because the monsterswere inside my head.I fear no monsters, for no monsters I see.Because all this timethe monster has been me.

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.

A lot of people don't believe in what they are doing. They just want the crowd to scream for them.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

I don't ever want something that I didn't do because I was afraid of it or I didn't think I'd be good at it - within reason. Obviously I'm never going to be able to play the trumpet.

He avoided eligible young women, too, because he was insecure in their presence and was afraid of failure and rejection in love.

The limits that we see are actually the negative thoughts of apprehension, anxiety and uncertainty that we have burdened with ourselves.

Lack of confidence is stunting if it stops us from achievement.

When you mark where your self-doubt is, then you can begin to conquer it.

What if I'm not the Hero? What if I'm... the bad guy?

We become our own opposition when we accept the following: procrastinating, lying to ourselves, comparing ourselves to others, and having self-doubts—in short, anything that gets in the way of our becoming who we were created to be.

So you ain't nearly as good as you think you are. What a shock. Look at your clothes and armour – you're chopped to pieces, O mighty assassin.

Whenever I get a script I skip from the leading role to the second or third friend as I think, 'no one famous will want that so I might get it!'

I didn't really lift consistently before I got to the NBA. In college, I would skip out on it or not do as many reps because, honestly, I didn't like it. I was like 'Man, I'm not going to put on weight, I'm always going to be skinny, I'm not going to be big as the sky.'

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

I was a little bit lost in my head after winning a Grand Slam. You're like: 'So what's the next goal? What do you want now? Where do you want to be? It's not a problem if you lose.'

Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.

Over the years, I've had a slight ebbing and flowing of confidence in my non-comedic role abilities.

I can never tell if anything I do is really good. I'm always just slightly chagrined.

When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

Im good at getting information and synthesizing it. Its not that I doubt myself on that. Its, do you have the Ph.D. first-class brain or do you have the really good second-class brain? Because I came from a very academic culture, I always slightly felt I wasnt in the very top group.