Quotes About Self-doubt

I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never quite sure what your limits are.

I'm the girl who trips on the dance floor and can't find her way to the exit. All eyes on me.

S for silent, for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you. Why? is the wrong question. Ask Why not?

The nasty voices are always on call.

Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Crap, make one, two really bad decisions in your life, and you spend the rest of it doubting everything.

I am not capable of love. - Felix

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book. Sometimes I guess it's best just to forget there's an audience and just write like no one will ever read it at all.

For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered okayness in my ear. I didn't speak it, to anyone.

none of us are good enough for Alfred

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

What dangers are posed by those touchingly insecure men who, unsure of their own powers of attraction, need to keep finding out whether they are acceptable to others.

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

the obstacle to our good development is not usually arrogance, but a lack of confidence.

3 August, Yorkshire. I know so little that writing is like crossing a patch of swampy ground, jumping from one tussock to another trying not to get my feet wet (or egg on my face). Of course at a distance no one can see the ground is swampy, and at a distance too one's movements are smoothed out, the hesitations diminished. Fifty years on, the anguished leaps may seem like confident strides. Except who will be looking?

If you know less than everything, you always feel inadequate.

What are men? Children who doubt.

The excitement of creating is followed by desperate self-doubt. Courage and inspiration compete with discouragement and despair.

It was me—the weak-willed, easily seduced, insecure girl I'd become. I was the obstacle I'd be carrying around with me for the rest of my life.

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree — deeply rooted to withstand all of life's upheavals.

She is well prepared, but she doubts herself. That is part of the human condition and she has succumbed more than expected to the program of fear.