Quotes About Self-doubt

My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just didn't know if I had any gift or voice and I had no confidence about it.

When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.

One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

I lack confidence as an actor.

I never knew I lacked so much confidence until I met you

I do have insecurities. I don't know if you can tell. I'm not brimming with confidence.

Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous.

The Greatest Enemy of Confidence is Inexperience

Light fell, and so did my confidence.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.

When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

Could she *be* anymore out of my league?

I don't give the same credibility to my being that other people give to theirs. Everything feels acted.

I would quit while you're ahead. Really, it's an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and write, and you have to throw almost all of it away because it's not any good. I would say just stop now. You don't want to do this to yourself. That's my advice to you.

I would quit while you're ahead. Really. It's an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and you write, and you have to throw almost all of it away because it's not any good. I would say just stop now. You don't want to do this to yourself. That's my advice to you.

Claire sighed. She supposed people always did like that sort of girl, and always would. And secretly? She envied Monica's confidence. Maybe just a little, traitorous bit.

Because I'm a girl, Claire thought. She was barely able to contain the relief welling up inside her. Because we're all stupid and insecure and think that we're never, ever good enough.