Quotes About Self-doubt

What the hell am I doing...? Escape holding myself as a hostage...? I won't be able to make it like that...

Self-doubt is a persuasive mistress careful not to shag her or you'll never get your balls back." - Simon Hunt

He'd never been shy, but he'd always been a little uncertain around girls. He just couldn't believe they liked him.

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.

We live with a future where every three or four months, we have to question everything. You think you could be the best, or that you're nothing and you don't know what you're doing. It is exhausting.

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

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

Get out of your own way. Often, we're our own worst enemy when working towards our goals.

Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

When I saw you around, I was scared to talk to you. I thought I was not pretty enough. When you spoke to me, I was scared for you to get to know me. I Thought I was not fun enough. When you asked me to be your girlfriend. I was scared to get too serious. I thought you would brake my heart. Now that you know me, love me and have not broken my heart, I'm scared to lose you. I dont think I can survive if your not in my life.

Our procrastination is fueled by our perfectionism. We get caught in the trap of thinking we don't have time to do it right. This is when we do nothing. Eventually the procrastination bites us hard and our homes become overwhelming.

Papa-Lo start thinking too deep and start thinking that he should be more than what he is. He's the worst kind of fool, the fool who start believing things can get better.

You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.

The next time you hear yourself saying, "I'm just no good at . . . ," ask yourself, "Why not?

If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.

If this went wrong I was going to feel really stupid. The Targets would finally show up and be all "What the hell was it trying to do to itself?

They don't want me. (Hey, I don't want me, either, but I'm stuck with me.)

I had talked myself into believing that I hadn't actually lost it as much as I thought I had when Mensah had offered to let me hang out in the hub with the humans like I was an actual person or something.

looks promising and I've taken it up again on occasion. But whenever I did, I realized why I'd not carried on in the first place – in the same way that a specialist might say of a child, that one's not going to grow up right. I could tell that it wouldn't develop into a finished picture.

Auf jeden Fall werde ich, oder wenigstens will ich, wenn nicht, dann doch, allerdings müsste ich, und kann nicht.

With you guys, it seems like I'm hot stuff … a know-it-all … but I've been back with The Batman again, and next to him I feel like I'm a stupid kid repeating fifth grade … for the third time.

Why did perfect feel broken?