Quotes About Self-doubt

Sometimes a man cannot live up to the best idea they dared to have

Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.

The moment you get pregnant, you're tortured by the fear of not doing it well. But I feel at peace with that right now.

i see when you doubt yourself, i feel your fear. please put down your burden and remember i am here. -your angels.

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.

To doubt is to deny yourself of your own existence.

Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath the deep waters.

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

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

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Never let the thoughts of self-unworthiness re-arrange your prepared passion for failure. You can do it even if others say you can't. But you cannot do it if you tell yourself you can't.

When you are worried about thinking why you can't, you are losing the reasons why you should.

It is not the difficulty of achieving greatness that stops us but the fear of being great.

When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.

En onmiddellijk daarop overrompelde mij de overtuiging van mijn eigen hinderlijkheid, wist ik hoe onmogelijk ik me had gemaakt, als een klein kind dat op visite is bij vreemden en op het tafelkleed kotst.

it is natural to feel somewhat nervous and confused at such a time. As the old patterns disappear from people's minds and the new ones begin to replace them, people can be full of self-doubts and misgivings about themselves and their leaders. As their ambivalence increases, so does their longing for answers.

People's anxiety rises and their motivation falls. They feel disoriented and self-doubting. They are resentful and self-protective. Energy is drained away from work into coping tactics.

are incurably conceited and pathologically unsure of themselves; they respond to stroking the way a cat does.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

He looked at his hands. Big hands. How useless a man's hands were, he thought, when it came to fixing the important things."

My great fear in this life didn't have a name that I knew of. I was afraid of remaining exactly who I was, and that phobia instilled a shiver of fear into every one of my days. Something as simple as a fear of cats would have been a blessing.