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...

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

It is quite awful how some people are constantly saying that they are superior to others, but deep down they know that they are suffering from a lot of insecurities.

La actual preocupación casi histérica por la seguridad es en el mejor de los casos un derroche de recursos y un obstáculo para el espíritu humano, y en el peor de los casos una invitación...

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.

The enemy uses those things your insecure about. Free yourself and take your power back by being secure in who you are – flaws and all.

People pleasing doesn’t allow you to receive.

Often, under the layers of our maturity is a child’s insecurity screaming for love and attention.

I am not sure whether you could call this abuse, but when I was (long ago) abroad in the world of dry men, I saw parents, usually upscale and educated and talented and functional and...

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don’t feel that way because of the wounds and the scars we carry from the past...

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects...

You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don’t want the accountability of starting it.

Insecurity off the Somali coast has escalated sharply. It is very worrying.

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

My dreams tend to be either so obscure as to seem random, or so obviously connected to my subconscious that it’s embarrassing- as if even my hidden depths lack depth.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were...

Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.

In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution.

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

Don’t be like an insecure person who only likes to be in a circle where he is the most successful one. Perhaps so that everyone in that circle would respect him. You should always position...

One of the most popular genital surgeries is labia minora reduction. When a similar procedure is performed on healthy girls in some African countries as a coming-of-age rite to control their sexuality, Westerners denounce it...

Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others...

The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned.

Insecurity – the basis of most negative human interaction.

The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition. But it’s actually when you’re most insecure and full of self-doubt. When you...

Only strong women, and they seem to be rare, can handle a frank and direct woman who doesn’t sweet-talk or need others to nerve her. You can identify the easily intimidated because they need a...

Behind closed doors, we’re all the fat uncool kid.

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.

People who have trouble questioning their own country often have trouble admitting fault in themselves, both of which come from insecurity and lack of humility.

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to...

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

Insecurity was never humility; just as arrogance was never success.

The earthquake of discomfort you feel moving inside of you when someone insults you is your own insecurity.

The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

Surely it is the one who fears he is wrong who avoids criticism. The one who is sure he is right invites it. It only illuminates the strength of beliefs and makes them more available...

You’ve grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives…alone. On their own. Undecided. And they get used to that feeling. It’s just new for you.

Read it with sorrow and you will feel hate.Read it with anger and you will feel vengeful.Read it with paranoia and you will feel confusion.Read it with empathy and you will feel compassion.Read it with...

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see...

When I feel threatened, vulnerable, or insecure, whether it from simply walking into a room of unknown people, meeting someone for the first time, an unexpected or expected confrontation, or doing something new, I affirm...

Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please other people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a...

You don’t have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.

These trials are already taking place in an atmosphere of enormous insecurity,

I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the...

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before...

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

A blanket could be used to hide my shame and cover my insecurities. But so could a camouflaged condom.