Quotes About Self-doubt

You're generally less humble in that decade than you'll ever be and this lack of humility is oddly mixed with insecurity and uncertainty and fear.

You listed the three options you believe you have, but really they all say the same thing: that you believe you're fucked before you begin.

Dear Scared of the Future, There's a crazy lady living in your head.

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

I was still shy and afraid to talk, for fear I'd say the wrong thing and make a clown of myself. I even remember a writer asking me for a 'quote' and I was so green I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was a soft drink.

The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Nothing held her, she was nothing holding to this thing: I am Hermione Gart, a failure.

And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn't measure up, and I never would.

And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn't measure up, and I never would. I

?nsan, "Yapaca??m i?e ba?kalar? ne der?" diye kayg?land?kça, Allah'?n hidayetiyle aras?ndaki perde kal?nla??r.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

I was not in any real difficulties yet; my affairs were merely going through a period of stagnation which could certainly have been overcome, at this stage, by the exercise of a little initiative. But I just couldn't summon up that initiative. I was too depressed by all the mute dislike of myself which I encountered at every twist and turn.

Remember, you are your own worst enemy.

Several recent authors have written of "the imposter phenomenon," describing the feeling of many apparently successful people that their success is undeserved and that one day people will unmask them for the frauds they are.

How many evenings did I stand in the middle of grocery store aisle, paralyzed with fear and indecision? It's not just the time I regret; it's the loss of who I might have been if I wasn't so consumed. It's who I might have loved, how I might have lived, what I might have accomplished. I might have been a force to be reckoned with.

The trouble is I'm not very good at trusting my own instincts. I've been wrong before. A lot." "About what? You worry too much, about everything. You're to hard on yourself." "I was wrong about Rory -" "You were twenty-five, twenty-six! Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, its a mistake not to be.

Nothing, but nothing, will block the awareness of anger so effectively as guilt and self-doubt. Our society cultivates guilt feelings in women such that many of us still feel guilty if we are anything less than an emotional service station to others.

At bedrock is the fear of being seen as essentially flawed, inadequate, and unworthy of being loved.

I used to be more like that woman, having fun with whatever task was in front of me instead of freaking out about how I looked to other people. I need to figure out how to get back there. My life has turned out great. Sow why am I comparing myself to perfectly styled, enviable, energetic professional in my head?...I keep saying to myself: "This is all wrong You are all wrong."..."You should be a shiny, infallible adult by now. Why are you still such a mess?

He acts like he doesn't even notice that I should be locked away forever and ever in some bad, drafty place that serves only American cheese.

I giggled and he took it very seriously and wrote everything down. I thought it was going too well, I was doing too well, it was going to look like nothing was wrong. I'm not this great! I wanted to say. Really, I'm a wreck, help! But I couldn't speak up. I smiled and tried to look brilliant.

knowing that if she ceased to trust her prescience it would cease to be trustworthy, fought a dreary battle with self-doubt.

I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed.