Quotes About Self-doubt

I guess that means I won in the end, at least in a financial sense. But in my heart I stayed ashamed. I kept hearing Miss Hisler asking me why I wanted to waste my talent, why I wanted to waste my time, why I wanted to write junk.

Having a breakdown was like breaking a vase and then gluing it back together. You could never trust yourself to handle that vase again with any surety. You couldn't put a flower in it because flowers need water and water might dissolve the glue. Am I crazy, then?

He is too young to have learned to hate himself yet, but that seed is already there; given time, it will grow, and bear bitter fruit.

I fear none, except for the enemies live within me

you only fail soon as you start to doubt yourself

What if...the doctors couldn't find anything wrong? What if I was over-exaggerating the pain, weakness, and weird sensations?

Don't imprison yourself through self-doubt. Break out of your self-imposed prison with intentional action.

Spring is coming....Time for some cleaning. Remove all the self-doubt, worry, jealousy, regret, anger, guilt, or any other negative emotions that are holding you back from your happy, fulfilled life.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love so they walk quietly into the empty spaces.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.

An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they're creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can't make it better.

I can't do this because I can't... I can't be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this—this just becomes... another reminder of what I am not.

Ellie's head sinks into her hands, and she weeps for the unknown Boot, for Jennifer, for chances missed and a life wasted. She cries for herself, because nobody will ever love her like he loved Jennifer, and because she suspects that she is spoiling what might have been a perfectly good, if ordinary, life. She cries because she is drunk and in her flat and there are few advantages to living on your own except being able to sob uninhibitedly at will.

I've messed up everything again and I don't know why I even bother trying to be something more than I was because every time I do it ends in disaster.

So here is the thing about being involved in a catastrophic, life-changing event. You think it's just the catastrophic life-changing event that you're going to have to deal with: the flashbacks, the sleepless nights, the endless running over events in your head, asking yourself if you had done the right thing, said the things you should have said, whether you could have changed things, you had done it even a degree differently.

So here is the thing about being involved in a catastrophic, life-changing event. You think it's just the catastrophic life-changing event that you're going to have to deal with: the flashbacks, the sleepless nights, the endless running over events in your head, asking yourself if you had done the right thing, said the things you should have said, whether you could have changed things, had you done it even a degree differently.

Because there had to be something wrong, didn't there, if even your own mother didn't really love you?

I didn't like it when he looked at me like that. I could never escape the feeling that i was being compared to someone else.

A new start, at my age. Not sure I really deserve it.

The only thing holding me back was myself.

I had gazed at him, wondering if I really looked like the kind of person who held parties.

She made me feel like a first-class idiot, and consequently I became a first-class idiot around her.

I'm not sure I'm doing it very well.