Quotes About Self-doubt

I lived in constant terror of being asked a question in class. Even if I knew the answer, I was never able to tell it before the class.

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

I hate auditioning. I just can't do it. I get so nervous, like cripplingly nervous. I'm bad at them, and I feel awful afterward.

Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than "laziness" is the real reason you find it hard to get started

We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.

Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.

If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.

Worrying doesn't solve anything. I know that. In one way I know it but in another it seems wrong. It seems that if I don't think about all the things that hurt, all the things I've done wrong, then I don't really care.

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

Não reconheci a minha voz quando perguntei ao mundo: 'Como pode a coisa mais difícil que já fiz na vida ser também a mais cobarde?

It's all my fault,' I confessed to her. 'Oh, Fitz, always you are …' She bit back whatever it was she had started to say. More gently she added, 'No one blames you.' 'I blame me.' 'Of course you do,' she said, as if I were a child insisting the moon was a cheese.

He was stupid, stupid, stupid, and his only hope of surviving was in not letting anyone else know how stupid he was.

if I fret about it, I shall have pre-judged myself to failure.

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it become even rarer once one has a child.

You scared her." "She scares herself. They all do

There are a lot of people in this world who sell themselves short. They don't try to achieve their dreams because they're too paralyzed by the prospect of failure. You