Quotes About Insecurities

The fact is, such an undertaking [an album that reveals a little more of the artist's core insecurities and the reality of the aging process] wouldn't be an honest reflection of Jagger's life: he still goes clubbing, he still jet-sets, he still has a keen and active interest in the opposite sex, ha can still prance around stage for two hours a night without requiring hospitalization. He is not your average 65-year-old.

Sometimes they speak words that cut or bruise my soul, telling me I am unlovely and unlovable—a message I am unaccountably ready to believe. They may be the voices of people close to me, the culture around me, the advertising I can't escape, religion, education, or of my own innate pride or insecurities.

It started as a youth movement, with educated disgruntled Europeans alienated by the competitive market (or neo-liberal) approach of the European Union project that was urging them on to a life of jobs, flexibility and faster economic growth. But their Eurocentric origins soon gave way to internationalism, as they saw their predicament of multiple insecurities linked to what was happening to others all over the world. Migrants became a substantial part of the precariat demonstrations.

Security is a precious asset. It should be a goal of everyone who genuinely wants to build a good society rather than one that facilitates the aggrandizement of a privileged elite who knowingly gain from the insecurities of others. Wanting others to have what you want takes courage. That is what basic income is about.

You're afraid of loving, you're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. Love comes down to our willingness to be vulnerable, to share our insecurities, and our desires that are only ours.

He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are.

I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.

I have the insecurities of any actress, I suppose of any woman. Even the most beautiful ones feel unhappy. Look at Bardot: she was suicidal. But I like to play with the camera. I like to ham it up.

I was mostly bullied by my classmates. People would come up to me and say, 'You're so dark.' I'd always fight back by calling out one of their insecurities, like, 'Well, you have a big nose.' Today, I'd tell them that I really love them. I'd thank them because they made me realize how unique I am.

If I did have a six-pack to show and a great waistline to put out there to the universe or beautiful muscular legs, then I would not have to pout. The only thing I have going for me is a jawline.

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

It's amazing as women how many excuses we make when a guy doesn't call or text. It's unbelievable.

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

Only in hindsight can we see that out fears and worries were unwarranted, that insecurities and doubts were just illussions, or that we should have taken a risk or dared something new sooner.

She keeps telling herself and others that she doesn't want a relationship to silence the longing in her soul. That alternative fact feeds her insecurities and starves her soul.

Don't let the insecurities of others dull your sparkle. Shine like the star you are born to be.

Before the Paralympic movement I definitely didn't like wearing shorts because people would stare at me.

A lot of stuff people said to me when I was younger subconsciously stayed with me and became my biggest insecurities.

Many of my deepest insecurities stem from my issues with my dad.

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

I have a lot of fears that normal people have.