Quotes About Self-doubt

Self-sabotage is an art only the most neurotic can master.

If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

The longer you are single, the more you think that something's wrong with you.

The only reason we dont have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we cant have them.

The 'perfect' time never arrives. You're always too young or old or busy or broke or something else. If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.

You know that's not what I mean! I just...I don't know what to do with men. I get nervous. I make too many jokes. I act like a kid sister instead of their fantasy sex machine.

Never underestimate yourself, Miss Jessie. People are going to think you're not up to much if you think that way yourself.

You always look as though you think people aren't going to like you--that's your trouble.

I didn't feel that I had any good qualities. Or rather, none were good enough. Nothing I did or said was good enough, but I couldn't make anyone understand the way I felt.

An increasingly large part of me believed that this was it, this was my life and it wasn't going to get better. The problem was me.

No author was immune from having his own ideas and words quoted back to him favorably. Authors were, at heart, no matter how much they blustered or how suavely they carried themselves, insecure creatures with sensitive egos, as delicate in the constitution as movie stars, only much poorer and less glamorous.

I was not a bastard, I was not, I was not, I was not, unless, somehow, I was.

I was not a bastard, I was not a bastard, I was not, I was not, I was not, unless, somehow, I was.

It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

I'm such a nobody.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? If you hear a voice within saying 'You are not a painter' then by all means paint – and that voice will be silenced.

Eu tinha começado a assinar minhas telas, mas logo parei com isto, pareceu-me demasiada besteira.

Se algo em seu íntimo lhe disser "você não é pintor", é então que você deve pintar, meu velho, e também esta voz se calará, mas somente desta maneira;

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint. And that voice will be silenced.

The rest certainly must seem damn bad." And the days when I bring home a study I say to myself - If it was like this every day, we might be able to get on; but the days when you come back empty-handed, and eat and sleep and spend money all the same, you don't think much of yourself, and you feel like a fool and a shirker and a good-for-nothing.

Ich wäre sehr froh, wenn Du in mir doch etwas anderes sehen könntest als eine Art Nichtstuer.