Quotes About Insecurities

#1. Your insecurities are what makes you different and who you are. If we all were the same, it'd be boring.

Jesy Nelson

#2. Rudeness is a means to attract attention, assert power, cover-up ineptitude, deflect personal insecurities, and intimidate meeker people.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#3. When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.

Steve Vai

#4. The day your heart fills only with fear and insecurities, everything you see becomes the ghost that you were always scared of.

Akshay Vasu

#5. So many people have said to me that when you become a school parent, it is like going back to school yourself. Some of those insecurities come out and are projected through your child.

Liane Moriarty

#6. I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

Taylor Swift

#7. I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.

Shirley Manson

#8. Our insecurities cause us to retaliate in outrageously greater proportions to whatever it was that came at us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. When you're younger you've got a lot of ideas and you're probably more insecure. I work with young actors now and I see their insecurities, and I make them laugh because I know exactly what they're going through. When you get older you think, it's only a movie after all, it's not brain surgery.

Anthony Hopkins

#10. People don't realize, if you love yourself and accept yourself for who you are, all those insecurities eventually fade away.

Winter Renshaw

#11. It took a man capable of an immeasurable amount of understanding to strip away the insecurities I'd felt after learning what I was. It took a man capable of loving me until the end of the world to make me accept myself.
And I would move heaven and hell to keep him.
Always.

Keary Taylor

#12. Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.

Josh Dun

#13. Relationships fail when people take their own insecurities and project them as their partner's flaws.

Steve Maraboli

#14. I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.

Joel Kinnaman

#15. There are certain vulnerabilities and insecurities that go along with not being linked to another person in a contractual way, even if it's an unspoken contract. People in New York manage that pretty well. I prefer choice and desire over convention and limitation.

Jamie Johnson

#16. You resist my words because of your own insecurities and the fear that right now you could be the God that you truly are.

Jamila Hammad

#17. When you're married to Miranda Lambert, you've gotta give her her room because she's a powerful force. I think it's more about just listening and understanding who she is and what her insecurities may be and how to approach our marriage as an open minded listener and a shoulder to lean on.

Blake Shelton

#18. Our anger is a product of our insecurities.

Saru Singhal

#19. You're full of insecurities in your 20s - most of the time your heart's being broken, you're having a difficult time finding out who the hell you are, and I was trying to do that in the full glare of the public.

Kim Wilde

#20. No one is perfect. Even the most confident people have insecurities. At some point in of our lives, we may feel we lack something. That is reality. We must try to live as per our capability.

Anil Sinha

#21. Software development was insecurities all the way down. Even

Ken MacLeod

#22. I think our insecurities are our biggest challenges, and we all have them. Trust me, I've got plenty of my own.

Abby Huntsman

#23. Everyone reacts to life based on their own insecurities.

Cliff Cardin

#24. Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities that do not torment normal people, only chronic nonconformists, many of whom end up as writers after having failed in other undertakings.

Isabel Allende

#25. I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, "Let me just lean into being a guy who can't read or write."

Charlie Day

#26. If you realize that other people put you down because of their own insecurities, unhappiness and jealousy, you understand that there's no need to be offended. Because it's not really about you, but about them.

Jeanette Coron

#27. When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. I want you to let go of all of your insecurities. I want you to reject anyone of anything that ever made you feel like you don't belong.

Lady Gaga

#29. It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.

Fefe Dobson

#30. Is your animosity towards a person warranted, or is it a reflection of your own insecurities?

Trenice Carter

#31. Don't fear, dream. Don't lie, tell stories. Don't limit, explore. Don't think, act. Don't try, do. Be original, be you. Most people hide behind their insecurities, and it's a horrible path to take. Dream big, and make something of yourself.

Jacob Michael White

#32. We both had hang-ups, insecurities, and an addiction to each other that required regular contact to keep us functioning properly. I hated being apart from him. I rarely went more than a couple of hours without thinking of him.

Sylvia Day

#33. I'm so scared girls look at my breast implants and think, 'To get boys, you need big boobs.' I tell them, 'Don't get it done. Those fears go away. You develop other insecurities, but breasts aren't one of them.' I want to get them half-size.

Jenny McCarthy

#34. The insecurities from your past are not the truth in your life either. As we look at our doubts and develop confident hearts, it's going to be important to recognize negative emotions from our past that keep us from living confidently in our present and future.

Renee Swope

#35. People want to project their own insecurities on others, but I refuse to allow them to put that on me. Just because you don't think that you could be the best in the world doesn't mean that I shouldn't have the confidence to believe I can do anything.

Ronda Rousey

#36. 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.

Sanjo Jendayi

#37. Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Barbara Walters

#38. I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

Adele

#39. If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

Peter Mandelson

#40. I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

Lindsey Vonn

#41. I sometimes think of people's personalities as the negative space around their insecurities.

Lindy West

#42. Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

Christopher Eccleston

#43. When the time is right, you will find your space in universal design. That space is the reality of our consciousness; rest is layers upon layers of memories, desires, and insecurities of mind.

Shashi

#44. Even Colin - the golden boy, the man with the easy smile and devilish humor - had raw spots of his own. He was haunted by unfulfilled dreams and secret insecurities. How unfair she had been when she'd pondered his life, not to allow him his weaknesses.

Julia Quinn

#45. No matter how big a comedian gets, they're ultimately all just a bunch of nerds with their weird insecurities. You realize these are just the people in high school who were making people laugh.

Reggie Watts

#46. Pride is always born of our insecurities. When we don't know who we are in Christ, we use pride to try to fill that void.

Craig Groeschel

#47. I think people discredit teenagers and how wise they can be. Sometimes I meet teenagers who are much wiser than many adults I've met, because they haven't let any insecurities or doubts about themselves get in the way of their thoughts.

Amandla Stenberg

#48. It was amazing how the right words spoken by a man could soothe insecurities.

Karen Witemeyer

#49. We're quick to think of people as snobs, little realizing that perhaps they suffer from the same insecurities that we do.

Ken Puddicombe

#50. May you refuse to be bullied by your fears or diminished by your insecurities.

Susie Larson

#51. Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.

Bill Willingham

#52. The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

Cherie Lunghi

#53. I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

Zach Braff

#54. I treat every student who walks through those doors the same because we are here to teach, if not political science, maybe a little something about critical thinking or even - gasp! - life. If students came to us fully formed and without insecurities, what would be the point?

Harlan Coben

#55. What older men and younger women have in common is they are both suffering from different insecurities. She is looking for someone to make her feel safe, and he is looking for someone who doesn't answer back and is a trophy.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#56. Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

Jennifer Aniston

#57. When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

Bryan Cranston

#58. I was big as a kid, very overweight. That caused a lot of insecurities for me growing up, and on top of that, I didn't like the idea of big crowds. I found it quite frightening. I enjoy the company of people who I know, and I'm probably still like that today.

Deborah Mailman

#59. He fidgets. Thinks. Observes his fellow passengers. Judges everyone, in the traditional Filipino sport of justifying both personal and shared insecurities.

Miguel Syjuco

#60. I have a lot of insecurities, but you learn from your failures.

Helmut Lang

#61. The American male is a quivering mass of insecurities. If a woman makes the mistake of loving him, he will make her suffer terribly for her utter lack of taste.

Pat Conroy

#62. You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.

Sanford Meisner

#63. I never tried to write for other people. I liked people who had problems I might have, because we all have insecurities, regrets. I like heroes who were not 100-percent perfect, who things to take care of.

Stan Lee

#64. One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#65. I would often get called in to play a very loud, obnoxious - which, truth be told, I can be loud and obnoxious. My issue was when it was like a ghetto girl; I didn't think I was good at it; I didn't feel authentic. And so I had insecurities about going in on it.

Retta

#66. Obnoxiousness had covered up my insecurities.

John Duover

#67. The truest of loves transcends even the greatest of insecurities.

Solange Nicole

#68. Not a facade of cockiness to hide deeper insecurities, but a true self-belief and measured evaluation of what she could and could not accomplish.

R.A. Salvatore

#69. More often than not others will project their own insecurities onto you when they are intimidated by your light. Don't listen to them, it's a reflection of the war they're battling within.

Nikki Rowe

#70. When I work on something I'm not excited about or not as proud of it as I'd like to be, then I try to work even harder to make the next one and address those insecurities, I tackle insecurities rather than run from them.

David Gordon Green

#71. This is likely because you're so consumed by your own dramas, anxieties, distractions, insecurities, and duties that you aren't receptive to inspiration.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#72. This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You've earned the right to grow.

Cheryl Strayed

#73. The first thing I look for is the humor, because you can tell what the character's fears and insecurities are through the humor.

Lusia Strus

#74. Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.

George Gerbner

#75. But trust can take you a long way. And my faith takes me a long way. And I think that our pains, our vulnerabilities, and our insecurities can fuel us to be better. To try harder. To dig deeper.

Mariska Hargitay

#76. People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

Aimee Mullins

#77. My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Taylor Swift

#78. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.

Paulo Coelho

#79. You never know, when you're going in to work with people if they're gonna be friendly or judgmental, or what have you. There's a ton of insecurities that go into my head, before I start working with someone.

Ashley Greene

#80. The funny thing is I'm actually really insecure. I have a lot of girl issues - 'I'm not pretty enough,' 'I'm not skinny enough' - but there is a confidence I have in what I can do. I did tend to overcompensate to cover up other insecurities that I have.

Lindsay Pearce

#81. I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

Princess Diana

#82. I do have insecurities. I don't know if you can tell. I'm not brimming with confidence.

Andy Kindler

#83. You're always you, with your own insecurities.

Michelle Chamuel

#84. I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities.

Kate Winslet

#85. No one has the power to deal with our inadequacies and insecurities but ourselves. No

Debra Fileta

#86. All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.

Sarah Jio

#87. I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

Skylar Grey

#88. Do not let your past insecurities ruin your future victories.

Jeffrey Fry

#89. I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.

Cathy Guisewite

#90. I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.

Charles De Lint

#91. 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.

Ellyn Spragins

#92. We're all going through our problems, but we all have the same insecurities and we all have the same abilities and we all need each other.

Beyonce Knowles

#93. I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Billy Connolly

#94. I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.

Natalie Cole

#95. There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Vironika Tugaleva

#96. I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.

Pierce Brosnan

#97. I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have
poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn't
that what normal mothers and daughters did?

Richelle Mead

#98. How did Adam do it? He seemed to be able to look past Miles's weirdness and insecurities and awkwardness to see Miles, himself, what he was-whatever he was-inside.

Rowan Speedwell

#99. What you don't know is the people around you have their own pain and insecurities and they also want to be normal, so they are happy to treat you like glass because if there isn't any one around to pity, it gives them more time to think about what's wrong in their own lives.

Inger Iversen

#100. I still have very normal insecurities, but I've always been made to feel like a body is a body, and it's not supposed to look like what you see in the media.

Nikki Reed