Quotes About Self-doubt

There are many times you are going to find it difficult to believe in yourself. When you run into those times, try and believe in those who believe in you.

The old sorceress was not given to berating herself herself, but she could not help but think she had made a mistake. Possibly the worst of her whole life.

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

the inner game. This is the game that takes place in the mind of the player, and it is played against such obstacles as lapses in concentration, nervousness, self-doubt and self-condemnation. In short, it is played to overcome all habits of mind which inhibit excellence in performance.

And how reliable can any truth be that is got By observing oneself and then just inserting a Not?

I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write — W.S. Merwin, from "Berryman," Flower & Hand: Poems, 1977-1983 (Copper Canyon Press; English Language edition October 1, 1996)

I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.

I don't have the confidence to pull off a moustache.

I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

Im a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

I was given a tremendous gift in terms of athleticism. Maybe it was because I wasn't so confident in other areas.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

I dont have the confidence to be a personality.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.