Quotes About Self-doubt

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them.

Those who doubt themselves will doubt you. Those who limit themselves will try to limit you. Do not fight them. Smile, go your own way, and trust that your example is enough.

I would have liked to be called a dreamer had I known how to dream. The sense of being an imposter, I understand, occurs naturally, and those who do not occasional feel so I find untrustworthy. I would not mind being taken as many things I am not: a shy person, a cheerful person, a cold person. But I do not want to be called a dreamer when I am far from being a real one.

He discounted the value of his own efforts, and seemed to feel that anyone would have done the same.

I have to remember it... or Genma-sama'll come to hate me...and then he'll abandon me... What can I do, to become the "Himi" that you want...? What do I have to do to bring back my memories? There's nothing. In my heart, there's nothing...

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.

People are fakers--that's all we do. Can you think of anything you do that's not done for the precise reason of pretending to be something you're afraid you're not?

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

When I was in high school, all my friends said they were going to be writers. And I thought, How come you get to be a writer, and I don't? I thought WRITER was written on their foreheads and they saw it when they looked in the mirror, and I sure didn't see it when I looked in the mirror. I always thought of writing as holy. I still do.

So far as I know, no one has ever died because they gave a poor performance. The terror that appears so frighteningly real diminishes under closer scrutiny. Of course it is sad to do poor work. But then, we inevitably do a lot of bad work and we all have to deal with that.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

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

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

How am I going to manage? I'm never going to earn enough to support them. And a partner—ha! Who'd want to marry me, pregnant with somebody else's babies? Two of them! Nobody's going to want me." "Jade. That's not true." Twins.

As with all great natural beauties, she simultaneously doesn't feel attractive and frets about losing her looks. She once flew to London and spent two hundred and fifty quid having her hair dyed the same colour as it was when she left.

I keep imagining that one of these days I'll grow up and become someone who knows what they're doing, but so far that hasn't happened.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.