Quotes About Self Doubt

#1. However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

Dwight Yoakam

#2. She didn't wallow in problems or reveal self-doubt.

Joan Biskupic

#3. There's no magic potion to remove you from a tough situation than your own self conviction and no poison as dangerous as self doubt. In no one has done it so far, you could be the one showing the way!

Anuranjita Kumar

#4. Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

Jack Canfield

#5. What Cathy took from her rejection experience was self-doubt. Until this current traumatic hospitalization, Cathy hadn't realized the fear she was carrying around, how burdened she was by it, and how that fear kept her in a mode where she had to continuously prove her value to others and herself.

Robert Kegan

#6. I think the low emotional moments happen for every author. This is the time to find a sturdy mental ballast & realize self-doubt storms pass--you know, the same way hurricanes do.

Rebecca Taylor

#7. When you mark where your self-doubt is, then you can begin to conquer it.

Stephen Richards

#8. Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we ought to do. Other people's assertions cannot silence the howling dirge within us. It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

Eric Hoffer

#9. Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.

John Galt

#10. I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my ear and drowning out the voices of Self-Doubt and Self-Criticism. I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.

Roz Savage

#11. May you find grace to overcome self-doubt.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

Steven Pressfield

#13. Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.

Steve Maraboli

#14. At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

William Ivey Long

#15. Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#16. I know, despite all the gloom and self-doubt that bubbles up from the deep when you get dumped, that you did not represent my last and best chance of a relationship. So, you know. Nice try. Close, but no cigar. See you around.

Nick Hornby

#17. God endorses your dissatisfaction with the world's self-concept package: Large, with a side of self-doubt and a sprinkle of guilt.

Anonymous

#18. Never let fear hold you captive.
Never let self-doubt hold you captive.
Never let frustration hold you captive.

Roy Bennett

#19. My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.

Charlotte Bronte

#20. In every book she'd ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden their resolve.

Kathleen Tessaro

#21. Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious ... we have the ability to take action to override it ...

Lauren Mackler

#22. You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

Saul Bass

#23. [My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

John Le Carre

#24. I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

Hugh Laurie

#25. Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

Julia Cameron

#26. I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

Sigourney Weaver

#27. Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds.

Marty Rubin

#28. When the rivers and air are polluted, when families and nations are at war, when homeless wanderers fill the highways, these are traditional signs of a dark age. Another is that people become poisoned by self-doubt and become cowards.

Pema Chodron

#29. Messages of self-doubt and self-criticism that we carry around in our heads. My answer was There are a few of them.

Brene Brown

#30. Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.

Graham Brown

#31. I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.

Michael Palin

#32. The worst thing about that kind of prejudice ... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

Nina Simone

#33. The journey to the realisation of your dreams is difficult; you will have to climb the mountains of despair, brave the storms of self doubt, be resolute in the winds of ridicule but the in the very end you will get a kind of self satisfaction that no one can take away from you

Rassool Jibraeerl Snyman

#34. Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

Aimee Mullins

#35. Our greatest fear is fear of success. When we are succeeding - that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in our craft and evolving to a higher level - that's when panic strikes.

Steven Pressfield

#36. Through the doors of perception, down the corridors of uncertainty, and into the room of self doubt, opens the window of opportunity.

David Parker

#37. As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Jo Nesbo

#38. And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Sylvia Plath

#39. 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

#40. I could keep going forever, listing all my flaws in order from the most innocuous to the least. I am afraid of spiders ... I fall in love too easily ... I have fierce spells of self-doubt.

Nina LaCour

#41. I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.

Marc Almond

#42. Beneath my own witty, profession facade were oceans of fear, whole rivers of self-doubt.

Caroline Knapp

#43. Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#44. This phenomenon of capable people being plagued by self-doubt has a name---the impostor syndrome.

Sheryl Sandberg

#45. Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

Bruce Barton

#46. At last
He is healed of his self-doubt.
Now what is happening ?
He is awakening
To his souls ecstasy-sun.

Sri Chinmoy

#47. A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity.

Sandy Woodward

#48. We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate ... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

Christopher Reeve

#49. Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.

Rodolfo Costa

#50. Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

Al Franken

#51. When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.

Miriam Schapiro

#52. Sometimes I write a line and it fills me with self doubt. Sometimes I write a line and its poetry reduces me to tears.

Sandra J. Jackson

#53. Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#54. The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is minimal, has come increasingly to color the modern world of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

Chris Hedges

#55. Self-doubt is healthy! Self-doubt keeps me in check!

Anna Kendrick

#56. Writing down your successes is another method - so you can look back on them every time you
feel a hint of self-doubt coming

Jessica Bennett

#57. I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

Emily Mortimer

#58. Men display less self-doubt and lead with what seems always like a sense of force and direction. We are not as familiar with women leaders, and so we question their skills. As women, we always need to work harder to prove our competence.

Maureen Chiquet

#59. Being an entrepreneur is sexy ... for those who haven't done it. In reality it's gritty, tough work where you will be filled with self doubt. Entrepreneurs are survivors.

Mark Suster

#60. The combination of fear of disappointment, entitlement, and performance pressure is a recipe for hopelessness and self-doubt.

Brene Brown

#61. We will struggle with self-doubt, distractions, addictions, unhappiness and dissatisfaction until we surrender and commit to our God-given calling.

Shannon Tanner

#62. I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

Richard Eyre

#63. It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

Heath Ledger

#64. Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.

Victoria Moran

#65. The nature and specifics of the negative depend on the part of the country and the year, but the common thread is: self-doubt.

Gloria Steinem

#66. Give someone a book, they'll read for a day. Teach someone how to write a book, they'll experience a lifetime of paralyzing self doubt.

Lauren DeStefano

#67. Playing big doesn't come from working more, pushing harder, or finding confidence. It comes from listening to the most powerful and secure part of you, not the voice of self-doubt.

Tara Mohr

#68. I loved Monty Python for the wordplay
this sense that you didn't have to squash your intelligence to be funny. In fact, you could walk right into your intelligence and nerdiness and self-doubt, and that could be funny.

George Saunders

#69. Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

Khalil Gibran

#70. When you can't understand the negativity, doubt, or lack of support directed at you just remember this. They are not looking at you ... they are looking in the mirror. After that the true clarity of their self-doubt will emerge.

Carl Henegan

#71. Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

David Brock

#72. On the other side of self-doubt comes a confidence from faith in the process. Even though our destination may be a long way off, each day we rise with a subtle smile as if we have already achieved it, because, when we are truly committed to a task, we already have.

Chris Matakas

#73. A person's greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#74. 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 don't know what's going to happen, it's frightening.

Helen Mirren

#75. 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

#76. People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

Hannah Kent

#77. Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

Adam Brody

#78. Don't imprison yourself through self-doubt. Break out of your self-imposed prison with intentional action.

Tony Curl

#79. 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

#80. It's very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you're writing the business plan that there's a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.

Jeff Bezos

#81. I AM WILLING TO LET GO OF MY SELF-DOUBT. I SURRENDER TO SELF-LOVE.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#82. A backwards step of self-doubt, a lying promise that you knew would hurt you later, a knowledge that you were going to get hurt and you probably deserved it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#83. Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able.

Bill Plotkin

#84. America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

Malcolm X

#85. Nothing matters. That's the key to unlocking the handcuffs that keep us imprisoned in worry, self-doubt, fear and disbelief.

Srinivas Rao

#86. As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

Garson Kanin

#87. There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

Al Pacino

#88. Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don't invite either into your mind.

Don Roff

#89. I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

Rush Limbaugh

#90. Why did God want us to remember these painful stories? I could only think of one reason. Having faith is more than just believing; it's about living with fear and self-doubt and working through those feelings until they bring some sort of answer.
-page 101, Chapter "Hajj

Zarqa Nawaz

#91. I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

Loudon Wainwright III

#92. I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

Geri Halliwell

#93. Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.

Wayne Dyer

#94. Sharon looked at Aaron and smiled. She'd made the right decision, hadn't she? Would she come to regret this decision too? She'd made so many mistakes in the past. Was this another one? No, self-doubt isn't an option. Everything is going to work out here. It has to.

Tamara Hoffa

#95. The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

Don Roff

#96. Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there's something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas doesn't mean that you have generally low self-esteem. And you have the power to get yourself out of feeling that way.

Amy Cuddy

#97. I write every day whether somebody pays me or not. I write every day whether or not self-doubt is kicking my ass. It's what writers must do.

Don Roff

#98. Knowing when and how to change course is important to success. Self-doubt is a lighthouse that will keep you from running aground. Don't become shipwrecked on the rocks of time. Be willing to rethink your decisions and change course.

Harley King

#99. Salvation comes through repetition. This I can do because I have done it before - it's half prayer, half truth, a whisper in a hurricane of self-doubt.

Kevin Hazzard

#100. I felt sick. I couldn't breathe. The idea of it totally freaked me out and I was paralyzed with anxiety. This overwhelming fear just kicked in out of nowhere, bringing with it a shitstorm of self-doubt

Zayn Malik