Imposter Quotes

#1. There's nothing I want. There's nothing I can't do. I don't care about anything. No matter what, I am an imposter. An actor in my own life.

Michelle Hodkin

#2. Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.

Amity Gaige

#3. Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Emile M. Cioran

#4. Several recent authors have written of "the imposter phenomenon," describing the feeling of many apparently successful people that their success is undeserved and that one day people will unmask them for the frauds they are.

Harold S. Kushner

#5. Imposter syndrome" wasn't coined as a term until the 1970s, but it's safe to assume women have always felt it: that nagging feeling that, even after you've just done something great, maybe you actually don't deserve the
praise.

Jessica Bennett

#6. Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

James Delingpole

#8. Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Edward Young

#9. Many students go through "imposter syndrome" as they try to assimilate into a professional culture.

Claude M. Steele

#10. I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and - will keep my word. Let them abuse and revile me. Let some call me a medium, and a Spiritualist, and others an imposter. The day will come when posterity will learn to know me better.

H. P. Blavatsky

#11. life is real,
and pain is real,
but death is an imposter,

Mary Oliver

#12. To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

Nathaniel Branden

#13. A forced silence is a dangerous imposter, painting a canvas of safety while plotting our demise.

Jo Ann Fore

#14. I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

Nick Cave

#15. If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

Edie Campbell

#16. Maybe we all have imposter syndrome and perpetually feel like our real life is right around the corner,

Anna Kendrick

#17. We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#18. The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.

Chuck Todd

#19. I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.

Rufus Wainwright

#20. that imposter or phony feeling at work or school rarely has anything to do with our abilities, but has more to do with that fearful voice inside of us that scolds and asks, "Who do you think you are?

Brene Brown

#21. Like most other creatives, I struggle with self-sabotage, self-doubt, and feeling like an imposter more often than not. I struggle with expressing myself, because it does sometimes feel easier or safer not to.

Jeff Jarvis

#22. Self-doubt is common, but when it impedes you from attaining your goals it's time to take action. This book shows you how to move beyond feeling like an imposter so that you can achieve your full personal and professional potential.

Lois P Frankel

#23. Who am i, really? What does any of it mean? i'm so afraid someday everyone will see that i'm just an imposter, a fake, among all the real and gorgeous godheads.
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Catherynne M Valente

#24. Lo didn't have a splendid time either. He drank something Captain America gave him. Turns out the Cap imposter wasn't too noble, having spiked his booze with roofies. Nerds can be vicious too.

Krista Ritchie

#25. Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.

Dorothy Day

#26. The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

Sally Mann

#27. Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. ... Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.

Louis Farrakhan

#28. What is conditional love?

Conditional love is an oxymoron.
Conditional love is an imposter of love.
Conditional love is something other than love,
because you cannot conditionalize the un-conditional.

Donald L. Hicks

#29. The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval.

Manning Brennan

#30. Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.

Augusten Burroughs

#31. Technology, for instance, has become a kind of imposter for connection, making us believe we're connected when we're really not - at least not in the ways we need to be.

Brene Brown

#32. I have a very vibrant imposter syndrome that goes on throughout most of my life, but nothing more than when someone has to put a hat on me or some kind of sash and go, 'We're giving you this certificate.'

Robin Ince

#33. Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

Sam Altman

#34. He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

William Blake

#35. Sow seed
but let no tyrant reap;
Find wealth
let no imposter heap;
Weave robes
let not the idle wear;
Forge arms
in your defence to bear.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#36. At one point I found myself simultaneously cursing him and reaching for the phone to call him and tell him all about how my terrible husband had wronged me, as if there were two versions of him: the imposter who had just hurt me, and the real Tom, who would curse imposter Tom and make it all better.

Camille Pagan

#37. I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.

Nick Cave

#38. It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us.

Thomas Paine

#39. A con artist, a total imposter, had played on my desires for the Cinderella dream and won a Monopoly trip to jail. I had hoped for uprightness, integrity, and potentially a relationship. Longing overshadowed the voice of conscience.

Debra Moffitt

#40. If we could believe that Jesus ... countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ... the conclusion would be irresistible ... that he was an imposter.

Thomas Jefferson

#41. A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

Andre Malraux

#42. He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

Han Fei

#43. Ladies and gentleman of Florida, this is the real Jeff Ament ... take a very good look because there's an imposter running around ... if someone comes up to you and says he's Jeff Ament and says he wants to take your pot or wants to take you to a strip club, it's probably not him.

Eddie Vedder

#44. This lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him

Lauren Kate

#45. Adrienne started teaching a few months ago in Denver and wrote that it leaves you with a constant feeling of deceiving people. That you know nothing they don't, or couldn't learn on their own if they cared to.

David Sedaris

#46. Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.

Damon Galgut