Quotes About Insecurity

#1. I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?

Katrina Kaif

#2. Faith is an action. He (one criminal on the cross) puts himself one step lower than where he was, sharing Jesus' place of poverty, insecurity, and the focus of rage. Remember me. And he will be remembered, because of his association with the Crucified One.

Megan McKenna

#3. At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80 ... uh, 69.

Eugene Ormandy

#4. There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

Chester Bowles

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

Shannon L. Alder

#6. My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.

Beth Moore

#7. All too often, we make decisions from a place of pain, insecurity or fear and we let those negative thoughts guide our behavior, ruin opportunities and be the reason we choose poor friends and abusive partners.

Elona Washington

#8. I hate all the worry about what someone else is feeling, this crippling insecurity, this tightness in my chest.

Danila Botha

#9. Insecurity is at the heart of every rivalry.

Beth Moore

#10. Insecurity sinks its teeth in, vicious and biting. But

A.G. Howard

#11. I was wracked with insecurity.

Ray Romano

#12. She felt secure only in her terrible sense of insecurity.

Azar Nafisi

#13. Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Joyce Meyer

#14. I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

Charles Handy

#15. Let someone take away any sense of privacy or security you might still possess. Then have someone use that insecurity to satisfy their own twisted curiosity.

Jay Asher

#16. The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

Marcus Samuelsson

#17. I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

Samantha Bond

#18. I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself ... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Gary Larson

#19. Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance coverage from extreme weather events.

Jacques Diouf

#20. I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.

Deborah Reber

#21. jealousy was in a whole category by itself. One that sat right between instability and insecurity.

Darynda Jones

#22. Insecurity is often the mother of aggression.

Claire North

#23. A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually.

Jean Vanier

#24. Our own sense of imperfection and insecurity shouldn't prevent a conscientious effort to nourish a sense of security in our kids.

Diane Medved

#25. Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

Debra Winger

#26. There is never a problem without a solution. It's just that you don't see it because fear, insecurity and lack of passion make you blind.

Abhishek Krishnan

#27. Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.

Bobby Davro

#28. Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#29. The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Erich Fromm

#30. Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.

Marian Keyes

#31. I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

Shahid Kapoor

#32. My mullet was an insecurity shield. My mullet was an ethnic hatchet. My mullet was an arrow on fire.
My mullet said to the literary world, Hello, you privileged prep-school assholes, I'm here to steal your thunder, lightning, and book sales.

Sherman Alexie

#33. I have fear, always, on the set. Insecurity to the point where the first week I always think I could be fired. I think that's a fear most actors have.

Penelope Cruz

#34. I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.

Kanye West

#35. I've learned from personal experience that insecurity and doubting yourself can really hurt you.

Bridgit Mendler

#36. Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

Laura Moriarty

#37. Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.

John Allen Paulos

#38. Go past the insecurity. Go past the little voice that says doing that thing will hurt you. Instead let the pain flow through you, and just hold on. At that very point, you will find yourself invincible.

Rishank Jhavar

#39. So you think we can be friends?" Elle asked. "No jealousy? No awkwardness?"
"Jealousy is a sign of insecurity. He adores me," Juliette said.

Tiffany Reisz

#40. I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

Jeremy Camp

#41. The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.

Jeff Koons

#42. First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

Thomas E. Mann

#43. Every once a week, I get up and feel that I cannot act any more. I just get very unsure of myself. But, once I give my first shot, I'm back on track. Insecurity isn't bad, it makes me work harder.

Hrithik Roshan

#44. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Joyce Cary

#45. It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

Henri Nouwen

#46. 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

Jack Cady

#47. Insecurity is gender neutral. Insecurity comes at various levels with power and position.

Aparna Jain

#48. There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

Illeana Douglas

#49. The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

Jonathan Sacks

#50. But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

Douglas Wood

#51. I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, ... an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Octavia E. Butler

#52. Being good at fashion and beauty and girly stuff has been such a point of insecurity for me; I'm not good at coming up with jokes that make fun of other people for that, because I don't feel like I have a mastery of it myself.

Rachel Bloom

#53. If our sense of who we are is defined by feelings of neediness and insecurity, we forget that we are also curious, humorous and caring. We forget about the breath that is nourishing us, the love that unites us, the enormous beauty and fragility that is our shared experience in being alive.

Tara Brach

#54. Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.

John McWhorter

#55. Insecurity will always be a growth industry. The economy now depends on fear.

Richard Powers

#56. I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

Brian Molko

#57. Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.

Richie Norton

#58. The deeper and subtler effects of the economic dimension of globalization intensify the politics of insecurity.

Andrew Rojecki

#59. I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don't lead her someplace where she thinks that's the only thing that could cause insecurity.

Beth Moore

#60. Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

Luke Evans

#61. There's no room in perfection for insecurity.

R.K. Lilley

#62. Creative people ... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.

Rollo May

#63. It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.

Muriel Barbery

#64. Insecurity - the basis of most negative human interaction.

Charles F. Glassman

#65. I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

Steve Earle

#66. I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.

Sam Claflin

#67. People found me ugly and weird looking. All those years of that whole insecurity thing just makes you feel horrible then really slowly you start to think if they can make me look nice in the picture then it's not that bad.

Lara Stone

#68. One of the worse state to be in, is to be ignored. Obscurity like insecurity, kills!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

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

Graham Greene

#70. There was something in him, lighter than ego but darker than insecurity, that needed constant buffing, polishing, waxing.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#71. Insecurity is lack of self love. When your fountain of self love is alive, you will be one with people.

Vishwas Chavan

#72. Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

Charlie Brooker

#73. Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.

Deepak Chopra

#74. Past my own feelings of guilt and insecurity, I feel grateful. These parents - mostly mothers - constitute a large amount of

Sheryl Sandberg

#75. Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.

William H. Calvin

#76. The way of the heart is the way of courage.
It is to live in insecurity;
it is to live in love, and trust;
it is to move in the unknown.

Osho

#77. The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#78. The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.'

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#79. Confidence is subtle. Insecurity is brash.

Sam Owen

#80. I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

Lake Bell

#81. With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.

Steven Kotler

#82. I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing ... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity ... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.

Rachel Kushner

#83. I function better in an atmosphere of inner insecurity and fear.

Timothy Miller

#84. Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in my 20s.

Mariella Frostrup

#85. I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment ... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.

Lynda Bellingham

#86. I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning ... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.

Connie Chung

#87. But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

Tony Blair

#88. Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.

Kaitlin Doubleday

#89. The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.

Charlie Huston

#90. His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.

Freya North

#91. For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork

Elaine Stritch

#92. I'm somebody who, as a child, had a lot of insecurity about stable housing, where I was going to be living, if I was going to have a roof over my head, all those types of things. And I know the impact it can have on you psychologically and emotionally.

Jewel

#93. Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

LZ Granderson

#94. Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes I think from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self worth is diminished if they are not [naturally] in charge.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#95. 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.

Molly Parker

#96. Insecurity is a toxin and confidence is a tonic, so make the choice not to dwell on the worst possible case.

Emily Yoffe

#97. With girls house bristles with suspicion and frigidity; how much is paranoia transference? The damnable thing is that they can sense insecurity and meaness like animals smell blood.

Sylvia Plath

#98. It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

Stephen Bayley

#99. Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

Mason Cooley

#100. By the time you've had a relationship with a horse for a while, there are characteristics in the way the horse behaves with you and around you and responds to you that are directly (related) to some of your traits as a human being ... whether it's insecurity or aggression or fear or hate.

Buck Brannaman