Quotes About Self-doubt

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

He suffered incessantly from the fact that his critical faculties transcended his constructive capacities. In a manner of speaking, his critical sense robbed him of his love for the offspring of his own mind even before they were born.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy, am I or are the others crazy?

For Pamela, dinner in solitude, especially the public solitude of hotels, was a punishment. Companionlessness and compulsory silence depressed her. Besides, she never felt quite eye-proof; she could never escape from the obsession that every one was looking at her, judging, criticizing.

He was wondering how anyone could talk so loud, could boast so extravagantly. It was as though the man had to shout in order to convince himself of his own existence.

Maybe you're not the failure you think you are after all...

Self-doubt was a luxury, as, perhaps, was the examined life. And yet the examined life, as the adage had it, was the only life worth living.

not all those whose work amounts to something believe that what they do is good enough, or even worth doing.

If you have enemies, then your biggest enemy is yourself. Do you know that, Mma?

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Well, more than likely you will never entirely dissolve either your fear of your own failure or your small pleasure in other people's.

I had no illusions at all that I was beautiful, pretty or even able to attract the right sort of attention from men

I sometimes think people can see that I'm defective, that there's nothing there. Behind the job and clothes and makeup there's nothing to know. I sometimes think I'm this shell and I can't work out why people like me. And when I'm with strangers it reminds me of that. That I'm insubstantial.

Insecurity can also develop from a critical parent who focused on our weaknesses or failures or didn't feel we measured up to some unspoken standard.

Trying to convince myself Ive found one. Making the mistake I never learned from.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

If you allow failure to take on more of a role in your life than possible, then you'll always look at it on the defense and you'll always shoot yourself down before it even goes anywhere.

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

Don't waste your life believing you can't.