Insecurity Quotes

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

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.

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.

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

Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.

Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.

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.

Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form.

Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.

In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

People who pay the price for security may never really feel secure rather the more their insecurity grows inside them because they are paying the price for action but not their internal reaction

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.

It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.

Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

The fashion industry [is] built on, and thrives on, our collective insecurity.

I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.

You made me insecure, Told me I wasn't good enough.

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.

I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence.

Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.

I grew up with a great sense of insecurity in figuring out what I was and where I belonged.

Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity

Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity.

Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

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.

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

In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

The economic insecurity of the past ten to 15 years, the 2008 Wall Street crash, NAFTA, and the loss of millions of good jobs - these directly grow out of Democratic Party neo-liberal policies.

I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.

I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

Envy derives from insecurity.

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.

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.

We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.