Top 17 Impostor Syndrome Quotes
#1. The impostor syndrome. I know it well. Inside every self-assured professional lives a frightened neurotic who prays that he can somehow succeed before his clients discover the fraud. It's the guilty secret that drives us all.
Richard North Patterson
#2. But the impostor syndrome doesn't allow any success to go unpunished.
Joyce M. Roche
#3. This phenomenon of capable people being plagued by self-doubt has a name---the impostor syndrome.
Sheryl Sandberg
#4. The beauty of the impostor syndrome is you vacillate between extreme egomania, and a complete feeling of: 'I'm a fraud! Oh god, they're on to me! I'm a fraud!
Sheryl Sandberg
#5. fear of being unmasked as the incompetent you "really" are is so common that it actually has a clinical name: impostor syndrome.
Megan McArdle
#6. You kind of never leave Arsenal. How many comebacks do you make? At one point it will turn out to be a bad move. We all love the first Rocky but I'm not too sure about the last one.
Thierry Henry
#7. Relentless criticism in childhood can internalize a parental scorn that no amount of success will silence.
Bruce Watson
#8. IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.
Emma Watson
#10. I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.
Isabella L. Bird
#11. You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an entire house with her rejection letters) and other writers...
Nava Atlas
#12. The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#13. If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.
John Barry
#14. Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.
Vernor Vinge
#15. I know this is new, and you're scared. I'm scared, too. But it's less frightening than the thought of losing you.
-Gavin Taylor
Kary Rader
#16. Here's the thing - if you stop learning, you might as well pack it in. You can't learn anything with your mouth open.
Leonard Lauder
#17. I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.
Tony Gonzalez
