Quotes About Self-doubt

What Martha Stewart-like demon of a Stepford wife is possessing me?

It's pathetic. It's a bottomless pit. A barrel that has no floor. He must be a man who has an ever-crumbling estimation of himself. He's constantly filling himself up.

To feel forever inadequate: Is this simply the universal condition of being a father?

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

They had no confidence in themselves and even less in their own kind.

I'm not smart, Snicket. I don't ask the right questions and I never find the right answers.

I will suddenly remember this thing I did, and think to myself, Was it really necessary?

La timidez es algo curioso, por que, al igual que las arenas movedizas, se apodera de las personas en cualquier momento y, también como las arenas movedizas, hace que sus víctimas miren hacia abajo.

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

What did classes matter when she knew everything taught in them? Not learning made her miserable. She decided that she was the crazy one, that she was too different. It was better to stop trying. She started getting C's on her report cards.

When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.

That will just do for me, you know. I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth, shan't I?

I know I shall probably never see him again, but I cannot bear to think that he is alive in the world and thinking ill of me.

How ill I have written. I begin to hate myself.

Sometimes I think it's me. I think I must be doing something wrong, giving out subliminal messages so they can smell the desperation, read the neon lights on my forehead . . . "KEEP AWAY FROM THIS WOMAN, SHE IS LOOKING FOR COMMITMENT," but most of the time I think it's them. Bastards. All of them.

Darkness coiled between what he wanted them to believe and the self he despised. It only made him more alone. How could you save someone when he didn't let you kno him? What a waste. The beauty he murdered in this place. He could never see what he had, only what he failed to achieve.

Žinai, aukš?io baim? yra sav?s baim? - niekad nežinai, kada gali nušokti žemyn.

I always felt like I was stupid and couldn't get anything right unless I was singing, dancing, or acting.

Unlike Fred and Paddy, I don't get many offers of work other than 'Top Gear,' because I'm crap at everything else.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

Every job I took, I was deeply uncomfortable in terms of feeling unqualified. Every step, every risk I took, built confidence.