Quotes About Self-doubt

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

She has often suspected that her last words to herself and in this world will prove to be 'You bloody old fool' or, perhaps, depending on the mood of the day or the time of the night, 'you fucking idiot'.

Tu ancora ami il mio cuore?" "Sempre. Sempre te per sempre." "Non pensi che sono cambiata, che sono peggiore? Pavida, gretta, stretta ai miei golfini, ai miei passi rachitici." "Penso che profumi di un odore che mi piacerà sempre.

Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn't learn to read and write. I didn't want to be like everyone else. I didn't want to have to learn. I wanted to know everything already

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool." Marguerite de Valois

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect; it makes you feel inadequate.

Perfectionism at its core isn't about high standards. It's about fear. Fear of failure. Fear of looking stupid, fear of making a mistake, fear of being judged, criticized, and ridiculed. It's the fear that one simple fact might be true: You're just not good enough.

The second destructive thought virus is "This won't work for me.

One of the biggest obstacles that holds us back are those excuses. The little lies we tell ourselves that limit who we are and what we ultimately accomplish.

Me parecía que mi talento iba debilitándose paulatinamente. ¿Por qué no conseguía ser una bruja decente?, me preguntaba en tales ocasiones. ¿Carecía acaso de voluntad, de entusiasmo, de coraje? No me agradaba lo bastante el poder, me decía, ni me desagradaba lo bastante la fatalidad".

The only reason I can't jump in and engage life is that I've told myself I can't. Yet I can't helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?

But that's the thing about being the girl who's spent years convincing the world she's not afraid of anything: At some point, someone is going to find out you're afraid of everything.

You won't become what you want to be, else you become what you fear to be.

Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go?

I am not afraid of anything in the world. But I'm afraid of myself, afraid of what I will be in the future.

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

You can't stop killing yourself, If you can't stop hating yourself.

When you doubt and have negative thoughts you become your own enemy. Believe in yourself and push yourself to greater heights with positive thoughts that build your vision for life.

Your biggest enemy isn't always the one holding the gun waiting to pull the trigger or the one you think hating or against you the most, your biggest enemy is sometimes your own self what you think in your mind is what you answer back to and take it as.

You cannot always assess yourself right. Sometimes the brightest, most talented, most accomplished among us feels like a failure! Confirm if you're not the one who feels that way.

A person that believes in themselves has unlimited opportunities. A person that doesn't believe in themselves holds themselves back in life.

If you don't have the confidence to do what you want, you will surely have the fear to do what you don't want to do.

Confidence. Such a strong word to work with. It takes a lot to have confidence within yourself but it also takes one enemy to bring down the one you already have.