Quotes About Self-doubt

There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

she encouraged them, allowed them to encourage her. She needed them. Because she was still not sure she could do what she had set out to do.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

You too may be paying heavily for your perfectionism.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

Even though she was sitting next to the man, she couldn't believe he had noticed her. It felt to her as if no one could see her. She hardly felt real.

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!

There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.

If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

I'm not, sexy, am I? God knows, I've tried

People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.

I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.

Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid." "Don't limit yourself. You can be anything you wish.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

If I've got the powers of a god, then why am I so..." "Lame?" Sadie suggested. "Shut up," I said.

We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is.

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.