Quotes About Self-doubt

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.

You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course, I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

When you feel unprotected, unsupported and unprepared to take care of yourself, your insides will feel if you have been through a train wreck. The best way to describe this experience is that you are having a head on body collision between your wannabe and your can never be.

What we eventually uncovered was that I was afraid—afraid to ask for what I wanted, afraid to speak up for myself, afraid that I didn't have what it took to do what I really wanted to do. In response to my fears, I blamed other people for what I considered their failure to acknowledge me. The conversation didn't stop there.

I was also afraid that I wouldn't be good enough to compete in that arena.

Jag förbannar mig själv, och inte för första gången, för att jag har begett mig ut på en svår färd med en osäker vägvisare vid en opålitlig årstid.

I know you love me, but I don't know why. I look at you, and I just can't get why it's me. Every time I get my balance, I lose it again. Because it shouldn't be me, and I think it'd kill me if you ever figured that out.

La gente que duda de sí misma no tiene alma. Yo estoy haciendo lo que puedo para fabricarme un alma, aunque sea al final de la vida.

Parecía tan segura y decidida que Payne se sintió diminuta ante la sombra de su coraje. Diminuta y débil. ¿Quién era ella, después de todo? ¿Qué era: un reflejo o una realidad?

At first I thought it was a fear of failure. Now I think you're afraid to succeed.

I don't know. Lover? The guy who's in love with you. Whatever you want to call me, I suck at it.

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.