Quotes About Self-doubt

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

I'm proud of what I've achieved in cricket, as once I didn't think I was good enough.

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, Youve got everything going for you right now, and I say, Oh yes, but! Which is not a good way to be.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

I've questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

Maybe your right. Maybe I should blame myself… Who the hell needs that?

Satan knows, if you are against YOURSELF you will never fulfill your destiny. :(

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

Why do I even dare to think I could dream I could imagine I could hope?!

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.