Quotes About Self-doubt

I feel like it's a really natural part of writing: You lose perspective, and you have to let it go sometimes in order to come back to it and see that it's pretty alright.

I forget that I can play guitar and that I can perform very well. It's like having an alternative life.

I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.

Unless you sell millions, I think it's very hard as a writer not to feel anxious about what you put out. I always feel I could do better.

I'm not built to be famous, I'm not a star. I'm not special, so being stared at makes me very anxious.

My reality is feeling anxious before fan events or signings because I always feel like I'm the least favoured.

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

The thing is I don't feel like my story is special. I don't feel like it's different to anybody else.

I think I beat myself up more than anyone else.

One of the reasons I didn't make it in the NBA - I played 3 1/2 years - and one of the reasons I was in Europe for 20 years was because I lost my confidence. That comes from coaches that are emphasizing the mistakes, taking you out anytime you make one.

I doubt myself a lot but go forward at full throttle anyway.

I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

As successful as it may appear I am, I don't really feel that. It's like, you know you've achieved some level of success, and you know what you've done, and yet you still feel you have more to do and more to prove.

I always seek people's approval and I'm always never good enough.

I used to think I had nice arms, but I don't even think that anymore.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

For artists, we're always looking for approval. We're putting our artwork out there and saying, 'What do you think?'

The handsome things she had admired from her youth up she suddenly suspected of age and absurdity. In short, she felt that fear which takes possession of nearly all authors when they read over a work they have hitherto thought proof against every exacting or blase critic: new situations seem timeworn; the best-turned and most highly polished phrases limp and squint; metaphors and images grin or contradict each other; whatsoever is false strikes the eye.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

It's not that we fear the place of darkness but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

But you used to know a good thing when you saw it. Trouble is, that's never what I see when I look in the mirror. What do you see? He looked at her. Sometimes I don't see anything at all.

Like many entertainers, Hank always needed an audience. Nothing unsettled him more than his own company.

Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do perfectly well.