Quotes About Self-doubt

You only like guys you don't have a shot with, because you're scared. What are you scared of?

You only like guys you don't have a shot with, because you're scared. What are you so scared of?

A few days later, I yelled at him for losing his new lunch box, and he turned to me and said, Are you sure you're my mother? Sometimes you don't seem like a good enough person. He was just a kid, so I let it go. And now, years later, I probably only think of it, I don't know, once or twice a day.

What are you afraid of," she said. "Daylight?" No. I'm afraid of you. I'm afraid of myself, of whatever it is I'm going to do or say to make it all go wrong. I'm desperately trying to avoid that moment and walking straight toward it, all at the same time. "I'm just tired," I said.

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

From diapers on, I felt like there was something not good about me, but it was invisible to everybody but my mother. And whenever she looked at me, she had to let me know that she knew. That was her mission in life.

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

I beat myself up enough with this fight club in my head that I know what can happen if I invite new members.

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.

That's how we are! Afraid of our feelings. And when we become aware of them we immediately think we are swindlers.

lack of confidence, demoralization, doubts, and all those insidious workings which undermine the power of resistance.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

Tell him I think writing is lousy, Bill said. Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.

You did not do so badly for something worthless,' he said to his left hand. 'But there was a moment where I could not find you.

You, you, he raged at himself. Yes, you. You told yourself the first time you saw him that when he would be friendly would be when the treachery would come.

But why did I ever leave Tom's mother in the first place? You'd better not think about that, he told himself.

The way of the warrior is not free from pain, it is not free from disappointment, and it is not free from failure. The warrior knows well the struggles that come with fear and self-doubt and even despair. The warrior knows there are no victories that are not first won - within. Never forget who you are.

I like people who are not sure of themselves, the perplexed, the modest, those who try to understand.

I can't compete with the woman in your head, Cam. I don't even know if she's real.

I put the story aside and added it to the growing list of things I was inadequate at or incapable of doing.

But another part of me wonders if you do know how smart you are, but you've never tried to tackle a bigger problem because you're afraid you'll fail and then . . . well, and then in your eyes, you'll be a failure to your father.