Quotes About Self-doubt

You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.

On the old passports, mine used to say 'entertainer', but now on forms I say 'actor'. But I still worry that people will think I'm a charlatan.

I always had this desire to be an entrepreneur, except I felt I didn't really know what I was doing.

I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

Las personas que piensan que no son capaces de hacer algo, no lo harán nunca, aunque tengan las aptitudes

Kendi yasama ihanet etmeden bu tasalar? nas?l hakl? görebilirdim? GirdiÄŸiniz ç?kmazlar?n önemine nas?l inanabilirdim? Size gerçekten inand?kça, o güçsüz ve kendini beÄŸenmiÅŸ sözlerinizden, o miskin davran??lar?n?zdan, o budalaca kuÅŸkular?n?zdan daha fazla bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunuza tamamen inand?kça, size nas?l inanabilirdim?

This thought has always filled me with terror: that I might be one of those people, that I might be only one of those people.

Yoksa ben sigaraya kendi yeteneksizliÄŸimin ay?b?n? yükleyebilmek için mi öylesine tutkundum? acaba sigara al??kanl???mdan vazgeçsem o umduÄŸum güçlü, üstün adam olur muydum? belki beni tiryakiliÄŸime zincirleyen de o kuÅŸku olmuÅŸtur, çünkü insan?n kendisini gizli kalm?? bir büyük adam sanmas? rahat bir yaÅŸam biçimidir.

Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

Do I look evil? I can't do evil. I can barely pull off dangerous.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination." —Dan Miller

Tomorrow, said the voice of fear in her head. It always said, tomorrow, whether it talked about going to the grocery store or starting a new painting. Tomorrow you'll be brave, fear whispered. Tomorrow you'll be normal. Just give me today. That was how fear stole whole lives away.

In 2015, researchers found that when people took walks in nature, then submitted to a brain scan, their sgPFC showed less activity, and the subjects reported fewer feelings of self-doubt. But when they took walks in an urban setting, they got no relief. Their brains were still shooting out sparks, and their thoughts were still running to the negative. Turns out the beauty of the natural world is a palliative against feeling sorry for ourselves.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

I keep fighting voices in my head that say I'm not enough. LAUREN DAIGLE, "YOU SAY

When the Parent Dragons are triggered, you feel like you've done something wrong, you are not good enough or supported, and you are motivated to work harder.

If you have a fight with yourself, who can win?

I'm not sure I'm confident in the viewing public seeing every side of me and I'm not sure I'm confident enough that I'd allow myself to be that exposed.

I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

Sometimes we imprison ourselves with a narrative of self-punishment.

Before having a baby, I'd relished the freedom of a non-office job. But now I longed to get dressed every day and be in the company of verbal grownups. It was during this perfect storm of isolation and plummeting estrogen that I started to wonder if I'd made a mistake by leaving medical school.

What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.