#Insecurity Quotes

“O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.”

“Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.”

“Only the insecure strive for security.”

“Marianne Williamson has written that there are really only two primary emotions in the universe, love and fear. So anytime you're feeling anxious, insecure, worried, angry or resentful, you've left love and entered fear.”

“Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.”

“I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that - even the people that I consider flawless - then you can start to live with the way you are. I've read interviews with some of the most beautiful women who have insecurities. And you look at them and you're like, 'How do you have? Name one thing wrong with yourself,' and they could name a handful.”

“Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.”

“Middle school was what programmed me to be semi-insecure, like, all of the time. I didn’t fit in….I’d stand on the outside of the circle but I was never really in. That’s when I started to realize there’s this thing called rejection.”

“Every girl on the planet has insecurities. It helps me to know that some of the most beautiful people in the world wake up some days and don't think they're pretty. As sad as that is, it's good to know that a problem you think is your own is actually something every girl faces. Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.”

“Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don't think that they're pretty.”

“I'm pretty pale. In high school I was insecure and thought it'd be cool to go to a tanning bed. Now I just let it look the way it looks.”

“I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.”

“I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.”

“I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.”

“I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'”

“Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.”

“All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.”

“The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.”

“When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.”

“I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.”

“I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.”

“She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.”

“Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.”

“Loud threats often indicate deep fears”

“No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.”

“jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.”

“I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life.”

“What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?”

“I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.”

“Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.”

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

“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.”

“Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.”

“I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore”

“Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.”

“For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause me to get sweaty. It would bring back memories I didn't want to know about, or I would get that feeling that I'm not alive 'cause I'm not making it. And if it was good, I hated it 'cause I wasn't doing it. And if it was bad, I was furious 'cause I could've done it better.”

“The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.”

“People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.”

“The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].”

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”

“I try not to see new comics - their acts or their films. Part of that is professional. I don't want to be influenced. But another part is fear and jealousy. I'm afraid to see how good they might be. I don't like that emotion, but it's part of me.”

“Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”

“If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.”

“Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.”

“The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.”

“A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.”

“Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.”