Quotes About Self-doubt

There are lot of shades about me that people don't know. There are many things people don't know. I don't know if people will like me or not.

Certain people don't want you to see your light when you're a bit shaky in it yourself.

Weirdly, even as I became more confident as a writer and as a person, I completely lost faith in my own ability to shop for clothes.

Just because you miss shots, you can't doubt yourself. It's easier said than done.

Sometimes you get nervous because you cannot make shots and then you rush your shot and then you take bad shots and then you get even more nervous.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

It's taken me a long time to learn how to not try to win. I've been trying to win too badly. I feel like I've underachieved.

You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.

Coming out of college, you never really know how good you are, you've never played for money, you've put all your eggs in one basket and your whole life revolves around it. For a while, I didn't think I was going to be good enough.

I have anxiety and self-doubt all the time, it's a battle.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

I think the biggest learned behavior that I would love to get rid of is that little voice that tells you, 'That's stupid. You shouldn't say that.' And then five seconds later, you hear somebody saying the same thing, and you think, 'Seriously, what is wrong with me?' I think, in particular, a lot of women do it. And that's a problem.

I was obviously never good enough to play at a top level, or even anywhere close to that, if I'm being honest. That's the reality.

Me being myself, I'm not happy when I'm not playing.

I've never believed in my own political manifest destiny.

It's not whether I believe in God, but it's whether He believes in me.

I am proud, but I'm annoyed with myself for not believing in myself enough.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

Some people bought into the whole fame thing more than others, but I never did. I never felt I belonged; I wasn't confident.

You combine insecurity and ambition, and you get an inability to say no to things.

A fact of my life was that I had a morbid fear of reproach, especially from women.

The Astors and the Vanderbilts, their pleasure domes and money: she was sick of it. Sick of envying, sick of herself. She didn't understand antiques or architecture, she couldn't draw like Sylvia, she didn't read like Ted, she had few interests and no expertise. A paucity for love was the only true thing she'd ever had.

I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.

What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.