Quotes About Self-doubt

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

Arrogance covers up insecurities.

Every situation is evaluated: Will I succeed or fail? Will I look smart or dumb? Will I be accepted or rejected? Will I feel like a winner or a loser?

Yesterday they were hotshots; today they're failures. Here's what happens. They look at the faculty with our long list of publications. "Oh my God, I can't do that." They look at the advanced students who are submitting articles for publication and writing grant proposals. "Oh my God, I can't do that." They know how to take tests and get A's but they don't know how to do this—yet. They forget the yet.

Everything I was going through boiled down to fear. Fear of trying and failing. . . . If you go to an audition and don't really try, if you're not really prepared, if you didn't work as hard as you could have and you don't win, you have an excuse. . . . Nothing is harder than saying, 'I gave it my all and it wasn't good enough.

It said if you were nervous about committing yourself to marriage and it was because you doubted yourself and whether you would make a good partner, then that was only natural and you should go ahead. It also said that if you doubted that the other person was right for you, then you should stop it.

Remember: That voice in your head that says you can't do it is a liar.

Boys my age are stupid. Do you think that means I'm gonna die alone?

Of course, the problem with self-transformation is that after a while, you don't know which version of yourself to believe in, which one is true.

Beneath my own witty, profession facade were oceans of fear, whole rivers of self-doubt.

I write that one sentence really tiny, like if she doesn't look hard enough she might not see it, like if I write it full size then it might be full-size true. And it's hard to imagine that full-size thing truly happening to me.

I learned that "I can't" usually means "I won't," and that "I won't" usually means "I'm scared to.

See that girl just ahead of us? With that headband?" "Yeah?" "She's Debbie Reynolds's daughter." There was a slight pause before she added, "She thinks she's so great." Wow, right? Uncanny how she so perfectly nailed me straight out of the box. I just thought I was incredible.

You needn't ever make mountains out of molehills again. You have misjudged yourself. You are not who you think you are.

I don't believe people are across-the-board confident. If they are . . . well, they've misjudged the situation where there's an arrogant result. Mostly people have those few things they do well and hope those things make up for the other shit.

I thought for a moment, searching for a funny reply. What to say? Make him laugh! Make him like me! Oh, please make him like me! Then everything will be fine or thereabouts. But no punch lines came to deliver that body blow that would reignite the blaze of his smile. What a jerk I was. I've always been a jerk and always will be. He hates me now and thinks I'm boring and stupid.

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.

At sixteen, he was cursed with all the certainty of youth, unleavened by any trace of humor or self-doubt, and wed to the arrogance that came so naturally to those born blond and strong and handsome.

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

They were never my pack, not even Hot Pie and Gendry. I was stupid to think so, just a stupid little girl, and no wolf at all.

Sobbing, Sam took another step. This is the last one, the very last, I can't go on, I can't. But his feet moved again. One and then the other. They took a step, and then another, and he thought, They're not my feet, they're someone else's, someone else is walking, it can't be me.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know. Let them call you Slayer, who cares?

There are times when you will fear your own shadow during night; never let your trust ruin you into the dark- shibin varghese