Quotes About Self-doubt

Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

I just don't feel like - I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird.

I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

I felt like I did lots of crappy work in the past. I can't even tell.

I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where I'm not the best judge of my own work.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.

I'm not a huge fan of my work.

I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew.

How much longer will you wait until you take a chance on yourself?

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

Struggling with confidence and self-doubt are things that everyone goes through, especially kids, but I set goals, worked hard and leant on the people around me.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.