Quotes About Self-doubt

She glanced again at the number of page views on her blog from last month: 18. Three for every post she'd written. Sean, her mother, and Izzy (her best friend), no doubt. Although Allyson wasn't sure if Izzy had read the last post, and her mother had commented that she'd read it twice, pointing out three grammatical errors.

I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?

And then, more softly, but chiming from somewhere inside both of them: I wonder what she thinks of me.

Why make her feel so useless — if we're all useless? Because it is real. It has to be. But how can I prove it?

When a student comes and asks, Should I become a mathematician? the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could…

I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

What makes a person hate themselves? Cowardice, perhaps. Or the eternal fear of being wrong, of not doing what others expect. A few moments ago I was happy, I forgot I was under the sentence of death; then when I remembered the situation I'm in, I felt frightened.

Tienen miedo de realizar sus mayores sueños porque consideran que no los merecen, o no van a conseguirlos.

Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

Maybe I should end it all before I regress.

You're old enough to know that everybody except very crazy people and very stupid people suspect themselves now and then – or whenever they happen to think about it – of not being exactly sane. ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch XIX

I am too fucking fragile. I hate being fragile.

I often cannot believe the things I do.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

If I try to flirt with her, I'll probably get shot down. That would show what a loser I am." This thought contains nearly all ten cognitive distortions, but it's a classic example of Self-Blame

Discounting the Positive. This is an even more spectacular mental error. You tell yourself that your positive qualities or successes don't count. You convince yourself that you're completely bad, inferior, or worthless.