Quotes About Self-doubt

I can't tell if I'm a good person or I'm faking really well

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

If we can't stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can't move forward.

I can always go back to waiting tables, but I won't be very good at it. I'll never be good at it.

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.