Quotes About Self-doubt

People often say that the confidence of a person rises as knowledge increases, then wondering why not feeling so and rather finding own diffidence on the upward mode.

He'd never called her. Wanted to. A hundred times. But every time he thought about it, his mind boiled up with every reason not to do it, every doubt he'd ever had about himself.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing

I discovered I was infected with a terrible suspicion of myself and my inability to stay still, my dreadful insomnia of place.

I never felt that I was good enough, strong enough, smart enough. He let me know that there was always room for improvement. A lot of sons would have been crippled by his demands, but instead the discipline rubbed off on me. I turned it into drive.

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

Sometimes I go home, put the game on, and think, 'How can I miss that?' It affects you; it also affects you to know your career also depends on the opinion of journalists, fans, directors, and sometimes they're not really qualified to judge.

Obviously, I don't really think my version of a Cha-Cha would actually qualify for a Cha-Cha.

If you're nervous you think: 'I don't want to make mistakes or give the ball away.' But you limit your own qualities then.

When you are not winning games in a row, you don't have confidence, and it is difficult to show all the qualities that you have.

It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'

I just feel like I'm on a quest to fail if I try to even compete with myself.

Life is about overcoming self-doubt. But you don't grow if you don't question yourself.

You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.

When you're not playing, you always question yourself.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

Why did I choose to be a goalkeeper? I don't know - it is good question. I have asked myself many times when things have not being going well.

My whole career, when I was in Croatia, people questioned me, saying I wouldn't make it, that I wasn't good enough because I wasn't big and strong.

Whenever something's really hard, you always question yourself, and I had many times when I questioned myself, but I always rose above it.

I grew up outside of Seattle and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of questioning and guilt. Almost an 'anti-ambition.'

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

'Honey' was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist.