Quotes About Self-doubt

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.

We fear that we are ugly, that we cannot succeed and we are afraid of something

The biggest prison you will likely ever live in is your fear of what other people think.

All humans are imperfect. At times, the confident lose confidence, the patient misplace their patience, the generous act selfish, and the knowledgeable second guess what they know.

Every time you tell yourself that you can't do something you are holding yourself back.

If we doubted our fears instead of doubting our dreams, imagine how much we'd accomplish in life.

Im just a girl. I love being called pretty, but I'll never believe it. I'm not always right, but I hate admitting I'm wrong. I'm always smiling, but its not always real. I can be read like an open book, but I hide so much. I work hard at things, but I dont always get what I deserve. I'm just a girl.

Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.

One of the greatest mistakes in life is to fear continually you will make one.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Confront your path with courage, and don't be afraid of the criticism of others. And, above all, don't allow yourself to become paralyzed by self-criticism.

It's not who you are that holds you back. It's who you think your not.

Until now, I had reckoned only that I had not the 'gift' for writing; now M. de Norpois took from me the ambition also.

And these dreams warned me that since I wanted to be a writer someday, it was time to find out what I meant to write. But as soon as I asked myself this, trying to find a subject in which I could anchor some infinite philosophical meaning, my mind would stop functioning. I could no longer see anything but empty space before my attentive eyes, I felt that I had no talent or perhaps a disease of the brain kept it from being born.

I hated myself for being so weak. I seemed to have no real personality of my own. Gaby was the mirror in which I saw myself.

You don't lack motivation; you lack confidence in success—and that drives your motivation elsewhere, to avoid the feeling or the fear.

Food's my only bag. It's my gig, my art, my life. Always has been, always will be. I'm always battling myself – the part of me that says I can and the part of me that says I can't. My greatest gift has been that the part of me that says "I can't" is always, always just a little bit louder.

I'm always battling myself – the part of me that says I can and the part of me that says I can't. My greatest gift has been that the part of me that says "I can't" is always, always just a little bit louder.

People think I have so much faith in myself, but I have none. I have no faith in myself, or in what I can do, and yet people think I can do anything I want. That's how I seem, but it's an illusion. It's an act, nothing more.

I am scared almost all the time. But I never tell anyone. I can't afford to. I have to go on pretending I'm this confident person, because if I don't, if I'm quiet, I become invisible.

He was feeling something we all feel once in a while: why me?

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.