Quotes About Self-doubt

I felt I would live a long, lonely, useless life and die alone and unmissed (did I mention that I never bothered filling out any grad-school applications?) It's self-indulgent, I know, but this is what happens to the overachieving but essentially useless children of parents who raised their children to do well on tests but failed to equip them with the poison-tipped spurs of true ambition.

People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

Your limits are liars, you fears are thieves.

Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety of getting injured is greater than my courage.