Self Insecurity Quotes

#1. A relationship doesn't define you. You define you.

Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#2. Self-praise is the first sign of insecurity.

Avijeet Das

#3. I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

Kobe Bryant

#4. Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

Harriet Lerner

#5. In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it ...

Auberon Waugh

#6. The enemy uses those things your insecure about. Free yourself and take your power back by being secure in who you are - flaws and all.

Yvonne Pierre

#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 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

#9. 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

#10. Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.

A.J. Darkholme

#11. A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

Philip Roth

#12. Aleta St. James is an internationally renowned energy healer, life coach, best selling author, and more. Aleta does private sessions to release old resistance and shift out of anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, addictions, infertility, and insecurity at a cellular level.

Jenna Morasca

#13. The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.

Mark Goulston

#14. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.

Criss Jami

#16. When you discover who God is, you discover who you are. And when you discover who you are, you no longer have to struggle with the insecurity and self-promotion that define much of society. You no longer have to strain to measure up, to qualify. You are free to be yourself.

Steven Furtick

#17. 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

#18. I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.

Drew Barrymore

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

Vishwas Chavan

#20. National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

Tariq Ramadan

#21. When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. Hypocrisy
/hi pakrise/ noun
1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.

Sheryl Sandberg

#24. You can tell your kids they are perfect and don't need to change - which could cause insecurity when they recognize their own shortcomings - or tell them they are terrible, which would undermine their sense of self-worth and confidence. There's a happy middle ground.

Daphne Oz

#25. We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.

A.J. Darkholme

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

Kilroy J. Oldster

#27. 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

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

Adam Brody

#29. Whenever Insecurity whispers In your ear, telling you how much you suck, tell it to shut the hell up. Then keep going forward anyway.

Rebecca O'Donnell

#30. 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

#31. There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

Stefan Molyneux

#32. We laughed. Ha, ha, we went. Ha, ha, ha. I'm not laughing now. Never has a joke filled me with such nausea and paranoia and insecurity and self-pity and dread and doubt.

Nick Hornby

#33. Be patient with yourself and take heart. Your self-confidence will grow if you seek challenges and worry less about the initial insecurity.

Wendy Lustbader

#34. It was loneliness and insecurity that had brought Claudia to the chaos of madness. It was community, love, and friendship that finally brought her inner peace. This movement from chaos to inner peace, from self - hate to self - trust, began when Claudia realized that she was loved.

Jean Vanier

#35. Just because you ... achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.

Lysa TerKeurst

#36. If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.

Bill Jensen

#37. Our greatest battles lie deep within our own psyches as we face fear, insecurity, and self-doubt. These internal adversaries pose a far greater threat to our lives and our well-being than the external difficulties of daily life. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato

Dan Millman

#38. We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.

Frederick Lenz

#39. Complexes can be the feelings of guilt, a victim complex, and fear of failure, criticism, poverty, and loneliness, loss of love, success, insecurity, denial, and low self-esteem

Sunday Adelaja

#40. Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.

Matt Cartwright

#41. I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

Nicholas Brendon

#42. I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition.

Shannon L. Alder

#43. Ultimately, too much dependency on a person can kill love. Relationships based on emotional insecurity and need, rather than on love, can become self-destructive. They don't work. Too much need drives people away and smothers love. It scares people away.

Melody Beattie

#44. INSECURITY breeds JEALOUSY / JEALOUSY creates ENVY / ENVY causes self-destruction / a hater is made up of all three. Just remember you are an opportunity away from being hated on yourself!

Carlos Wallace

#45. Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they're jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

Shannon L. Alder

#46. I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

Charlie Kaufman

#47. Only when self moves out of the way can His spectacular glory come cascading through your life. When Jesus is in His rightful place, all insecurity will fade away and His lasting loveliness will become the mark of your life.

Leslie Ludy

#48. I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#49. These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having power over them. Persecutors may act grandiose and self-righteous to mask their own insecurity.

David Emerald Womeldorff

#50. Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

Harold Prince

#51. Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

Jim Rohn

#52. I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the layers, a crude little peg with a face is the truth of me.

Wendy McClure

#53. We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

Alain De Botton

#54. Maybe the supreme self-confidence I envied in Pepe was nothing more than cleverly masked insecurity.

Megan McCafferty

#55. Self absorption is anti-seductive; it is a sign of insecurity.

Robert Greene

#56. Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

Gary Zukav

#57. Jealousy is the manifestation of insecurity and dissatisfaction with one's calling and self-worth.

T.D. Jakes

#58. You know, I've always thought scars were beautiful. Really. They remind me of my Saviour. You know, without scars, Jesus would look like any other man. His scars proved his love for you and me. He became marred and disfigured by choice, because of his love.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#59. Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts.

Vironika Tugaleva

#60. Confidence is subtle. Insecurity is brash.

Sam Owen

#61. The only person you should ever fear losing in a relationship is you yourself.

Miya Yamanouchi

#62. You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

Criss Jami

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

Steven Kotler

#64. When someone needs you to be small, for them to be big, it's not love or friendship they seek; it's power.

Charles F. Glassman

#65. 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

#66. I've got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match. What a catch.

Fall Out Boy

#67. I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Tom Hooper

#68. Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is a matter of self-responsibility, based on the right to the fruits of one's own labor and freedom to trade.

Leonard Read

#69. Allport suggested that self-esteem can often be a goal in itself: "most people want to be higher on the status ladder than they are" (p. 371). However, self-enhancement can be based in avoidance as well as approach motives. Insecurity

Anonymous

#70. Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue ... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

Naomi Campbell

#71. Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.

John Dewey

#72. It's not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it's a lack of faith within me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#73. Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.

Criss Jami

#74. Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, regret, and apathy of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself.

Vironika Tugaleva

#75. Depression is a Virus,
handling it Once, Builds Your Immunity to it.

Vineet Raj Kapoor