I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t...

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

The hated man is the result of his hater’s pride rather than his hater’s conscience.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Some wo/men are so possessive … you end up missing missing them.

A relationship doesn’t define you. You define you.

You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most...

Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas

Wenn man meine Seele zeichnen könnte, wäre es irgendein wildes Gekritzel mit deutlich sichtbaren Reißzähnen.

The craving for recognition is every artist’s Achilles heel.

That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me just beyond what I thought I could accomplish. Either way, it would wash...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”[Modernism’s Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they’re the ones doing the judging.

Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don’t get it: If you’re not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.

The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.

Become your own soulmate. Then you’ll always have someone watching your back, and you’ll always have someone who loves you.

Your tears are never invisible—there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.

Why do we laugh at insecurity in other people? Why do you get a kick out of someone feeling insecure? Do you not have your own insecurities to battle with? Do you not have your...

Maturity is when you’re able to say, ‘It’s not just them. It’s me.

You know, I’ve always thought scars were beautiful. Really. They remind me of my Saviour. You know, without scars, Jesus would look like any other man. His scars proved his love for you and me....

This incident is a tragic reminder of the insecurity that continues to plague the Afghan population and of the enormous risks facing the dedicated and courageous Canadian civilian and military personnel working in that country.

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

It is tragic the way fearful people put all of their fears and insecurities into others; the way they strangle their dreams — often in the name of love.

The ideal of a well-stocked mind aiming at excellence in all walks of life has been replaced by the dream of a well-stocked wine cellar, the cellar now being a specially made wine cooler strategically...

Vi har ett slags grundmentalitet som gör att vi i första hand ser de förändringar som gör oss osäkra. Och det som gör oss osäkra är skrämmande, och ger i sin tur alltid upphov till...

I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: ‘What are you laughing at? This isn’t funny.’ Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don’t know how they...

It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language,...

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.

Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs...

If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

True love is jealousy in disguise: A man cannot restrict his lover from going to the club because he hates her, he actually hates the men who would come around and touch her.

Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts.

Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth,...

A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience...

Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that’s bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside…thus creating pain…but, alas, I have the answer; forget about...

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there’s this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

Y Doree se preguntó por qué tenía que importarle lo que Maggie pensara. Maggie era una extraña, ni siquiera se sentía a gusto con ella. Fue Lloyd quien lo dijo, y tenía razón.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

You can speak truth to power, . . . but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity.””The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel

Professors stare down from their podiums; that’s their insecurity.

Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don’t bother me one bit.

Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.

We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.

Your love is as stable as you are: It’s not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

For one of the first pressures that bear down on American girls is the pressure not only to be liked but to be like everyone else. This initial feat of self-transformation often involves loosening one’s...

Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness.