Quotes About Self-doubt

It's pretty hard, feeling like you get everything wrong in the eyes of those you love.

But it's quite hard not to feel a bit deficient in the Department of Brain Cells.

but as for anything else, I wasn't sure I was made of the right ingredients.

The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

She had a pretty name but she knew she wasn't pretty.

But it might not be good enough. It felt like the bar was extremely high and the possible loss was large. I felt under pressure constantly to prove something. I felt that people constantly look at you and decide whether you're good enough.

People feel if they're not achieving all they could, they're inherently flawed," said Coleman. "Shame in general causes people to withdraw and shut down.

It was as if, having met so many of my own goals, some perverse organ of my brain was busy creating new, spurious ones.

could not suppress comparisons of myself with others. How come I'm not doing what he or she is doing? Look where she is, and look where I am. Pathetic!

It wasn't that she didn't love me, I knew that she did, and that actually made it worse. If someone leaves you because they don't love you, it's a tough break, but as they say, life's a bitch, get a helmet. But if someone loves you and leaves you anyway, you enter a whole new realm of self-doubt and recrimination, what psychologists call the what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-me syndrome.

I act like shit don't phase me. Inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.

When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.

Je suis ambitieux, inquiet, il me faut croire que ce que j'écris est exceptionnel, que ce sera admiré, je m'exalte en le croyant et m'effondre quand je cesse d'y croire.

Basta parlarci dieci minuti, con certi diciassettenni - con i ragazzi intendo, perché con le ragazze è un'altra storia, più complicata - e salta fuori subito che sono dei maledetti insicuri.

entonces brota la ansiedad ante la menor amenaza de enfermedad, de incomodidad, de fracaso económico, de pérdida de la belleza, incluso de vejez. Esta ansiedad es a menudo anticipada, es decir, surge antes de que realmente llegue el problema, ya que existe la sensación de incapacidad para superarlo, con lo que se teme que se produzca el propio desmoronamiento y la «disolución del yo», que es el fundamento último de la ansiedad.

The truth about many of our great traditional patriots is ugly or ludicrous; but it makes no difference. They are defended angrily. National feeling in small states is always angry; it must be so, for its roots are in fear and self-doubt and for those things reason is no protection.

Untamed, the mind is your greatest enemy: crippled by self-doubt, beset by irrational fears, and divided by its own conflicting desires. In meditation you will find the inner peace that alone can give you clarity, simplicity, and happiness.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

For me, going on after Delaney & Bonnie was really, really tough because I thought they were miles better than us. Their

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future but an excuse can last for life."

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

I'm supposed to be this brilliant ThunderClan warrior, from a line of important ThunderClan warriors—so why do I feel so out of place?

Pride glowed in Stormfur's eyes. "I wish I could believe it. But I'll never be half the warrior my father was.