Most bad behavior comes from insecurity. — Debra Winger
Only the insecure strive for security. — Wayne Dyer
Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights. — Shannon Alder
Arrogance is the camouflage of insecurity. — Tim Fargo
Most people experience some insecurity regarding one or more of their physical traits. — Gad Saad
I'm insecure, and I need the validation of strangers to feel whole. So, I need every single racist 12-year-old on the Internet to like me, or I don't feel complete. — Eric Andre
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor. — Graham Greene
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. — Lazarus Long
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. — Clint Eastwood
I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex. — Eric Clapton
I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity. — Ben Affleck
That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity. — Gloria Gaynor
If you’re with someone secure, they nurture you into a more secure stance. — Amir Levine
A person with a poor mind set is always afraid to take risk. — Matthew Ashimolowo
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. — T. Harv Eker
Short Insecure Person Quotes
Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. — Sasha Azevedo
We all have insecurities but you have to know you’re beautiful. — Nicki Minaj
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar. — Seneca
A guilty conscience never feels secure. — Publilius Syrus
Show me a worrying person and I will show you a person who does not know how to relax. — Albert E Cliffe
Insecure Person Image Quotes
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Insecure People Quotes
Walk away from 'friendships' that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you — Michelle Obama
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. — Norman Cousins
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. — Marianne Williamson
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
The truth is markets are made up of people, with their emotions, insecurities, their tendency to go to extremes, and their other foibles. Thus, they often make mistakes and swing to erroneous extremes. — Howard Marks
Insecurity can be solved the hard way or the easy way—and by giving people the easy option, dogmatic tribes remove the pressure to do the hard work of evolving into a more independent person with a more internally-defined identity. — Tim Urban
Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life. — Elizabeth Fry
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
All my confusing feelings boiled down to one singular emotion. Fear. Fear of people. Fear of situations and institutions. Fear of economic insecurity, the unknown, and events that hadn't yet and possibly would never transpire. All told, fear of everything. And there's only one cure for fear. Faith. — Rich Roll
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. — Alex Karras
Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past. — Richard Marcinko
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. — Helen Fisher
Being Insecure Quotes
Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward. — T. D. Jakes
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. — Jimmy Carter
You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done. — Sanford Meisner
Don't confuse my personality with my attitude... My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on who you are...
Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and charismatic around others. — Mark Manson
Attachment security doesn’t mean there are no conflicts; it means conflicts can be managed with trust and respect. — Amir Levine
Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.
For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise. — Harry Browne
Any security issues, you have to be very hands on to really understand what’s the exact problem, and then take quick action. — Eric Yuan
I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I'm glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today. — Peter Steele
You have to be able to admit when you’re being the toxic one when your insecurities are controlling your behavior and when you are being unfair. Blame is great for your ego, responsibility is great for your future. — Steven Bartlett
I'm Insecure Quotes
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it. — Frank Gehry
I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained. — Nigella Lawson
People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life.' It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know. — John Stamos
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
I'm not going on a diet, I'm not trying to lose weight, because your insecurities are what make you different and if everyone looked the same, it'd be boring. — Jesy Nelson
I'm pretty confident and, at the same time, I'm pretty insecure. I'm like a walking conflict. — Pink
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
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself. — Katee Sackhoff
When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow. — Jane Green
I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am. — Trent Reznor
I have insecurities about being a good mom, or balancing my career with motherhood. All of those are very strong, very real obstacles. My motto is just unconsciously, and maybe now consciously because I'm saying it, is sink or swim. I'm a fighter. — Charisma Carpenter
Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky. — Ryan Reynolds
The unpleasant feeling of existential confusion and intellectual insecurity is the gateway drug to real intellectual growth — but when you haven’t had the complete epiphany, it doesn’t feel that way. — Tim Urban
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.
Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is feeling the fear, the doubt, the insecurity, and deciding that something else is more important. — Mark Manson
I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side. I've felt ugly and insecure. — Irina Shayk
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents. — Helen Gurley Brown
To identify yourself with your personality is more or less a reflex. You must see, when the reflex comes up, that it is a kind of feeling of insecurity; you are looking for a hold. — Jean Klein
We need to make peace with who we are so insecurities don't become a distraction to how we live. Just because I sometimes feel insecure doesn't mean I have to be insecure. — Lysa TerKeurst
If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different. — Kristin Scott Thomas
Self Insecurity Quotes
Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them. — Gordon Ramsay
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. — Marianne Williamson
Be the one who makes everyone feel like someone!
You can't waste your life in insecure relationships. Either trust each other 100% or leave. — Steven Bartlett
The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life. — Bruce Jenner
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
What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another eprson, what you do to another person - you do to you. Give judgement and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself.
Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our prejudices. Overcome these and you will have truly won. — David Walker
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. — Nelson Mandela
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. — Marianne Williamson
I Am Insecure Quotes
I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment. — Damien Rice
Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don't even know. — Drake
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
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? — Jules Feiffer
'I am insecure' means: I can't cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can't resist them on my own. I need us to join forces, stand shoulder to shoulder, march hand in hand. — Zygmunt Bauman
I think imperfection is beauty. Instead of being insecure about my muscles, I've learned to love them. I don't even think of it as a flaw anymore because it's made me into the athlete that I am. — Aly Raisman
I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am perfectly inconsistent about it - I am afraid people won't understand - and I hope they won't - and am afraid they will. — Georgia O'Keeffe
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. — Marilyn Monroe
Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation. — Delta Goodrem
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited. — Suzanne Farrell
You're Insecure Quotes
I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call. — Russell Crowe
You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs. — Kim Basinger
When you're a teenager, a year can be crippling to maneuver through. Some things happen when you're like 13. All of a sudden you go from being this really confident, no-worry little kid to having all these weird insecurities for no reason. — Kristen Stewart
There are times in your life when you feel like the dumbest man on the planet and you’re insecure about something, and then there are times where you feel like, “Hey, I’m a pretty smart guy and I’m pulling it together …” — Charlie Day
There are two kinds of loss of hope, one is the feeling when your pulse slows down and you are going to die, and there's nothing else left. The other loss of hope is when you're living in a country which becomes insecure, and you don't know what the future is. That's existential. — Marina Abramovic
We as human beings are slightly masochistic. Everybody is ridden with insecurities and they manifest themselves in different ways, whether you're a pleaser, you're mean, you're super-duper sweet and get walked on, or you're a gossip that talks about someone else. — Kristen Bell
I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look like this specimen that's making people everywhere feel insecure and you're going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery? — Tyra Banks
There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account. — Greg Behrendt
I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself. — Hugh Dancy
Usually the bullies are the most insecure. I was bullied and it's hard, you feel like high schools never going to be over. Its four years of your life and you just have to remember the person picking on you has their own problems and their own issues. And you're going to be ok. — Megan Fox
Insecure Quotes
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity. — Dalai Lama
The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel. — Steven Furtick
The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad. — Tommy Douglas
Finishing our work is a good habit to develop. It boosts confidence. Despite our insecurities, the more times we can bring ourselves to release our work, the less weight insecurity has. — Rick Rubin
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. — Dag Hammarskjold
The foundation of healthy independence is a securely attached relationship. — Amir Levine
Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness. — Hans Selye
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
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security — John Allen Paulos
We were the first to prove that proof-of-stake can have the same security properties as Bitcoin. — Charles Hoskinson
Attachment research shows that people tend to become more secure when they are in a relationship with someone secure. — Amir Levine
If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land. — Nichiren
Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal. — Haim Ginott
People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most. — Shannon Alder
Many of my personal passwords are still being held by the Chapter 11 team–to say nothing about data. — Sam Bankman-Fried
When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life. — Steve Vai
To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle. — Stephen Covey
I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else. — Ashlee Simpson
As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked. — Peter Steele
I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else. — Ashlee Simpson
I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent. — Lou Ferrigno
I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time. — Katie Price
The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically no money at all, while another may feel insecure with a million dollars in the bank. Your feelings of security or insecurity are due to your emotional programming. — Ken Keyes Jr.
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
We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or aspiring to be an artistic person is that fears and insecurity, they don't go away. — Annette Bening
I think that might also be part of the life of a creative person - those sort of ups and downs and security and insecurity. It's just part of the lot in life when you're pushing yourself and hoping to always keep growing and expanding. It's emotionally tricky. — Emma Stone
When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time. — Melanie Martinez
I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person. — Selima Hill
I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything. — Rebecca De Mornay
When a doting person gets down on all fours and plays with a puppy's rubber mouse, for instance, it only confuses the young dog and gives him a sense of insecurity. He gets the impression that his world is unstable, and wonders whether he is expected to walk on his hind legs and learn to smoke cigars. — Corey Ford
I was surprised how much Andy Cohen reveal about his insecurities and your personal life. — Anderson Cooper
If we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life. — Joshua Radin
Im not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, Wow. — Sayings
Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure. — Sandra Bullock
Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy, fear, paranoia, guilt and uncertainty. Celebrities can be born overnight. Writer's can't. Writers are made - forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities - over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same writer you become. — Chuck Wendig
Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything. — Eminem
Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious. — Walter Lippmann
In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person. — Nikki Reed
The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure. — Noah Webster
You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of. — Kevin Sorbo
I'm not the guy who bursts into the room. I'm the most insecure person you'll meet if you get to know me. — John Stamos
My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger. — Angie Harmon
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
You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities. — Rachael Leigh Cook
Ever since I was a child, I always had insecurity or suspicions about my own personal identity. That's why I started going to a lot of movie theaters, because I felt more comfortable there than at school. Now, the search for a personal identity is becoming a common topic for young Japanese people, and it's a big theme in their own lives. But it's been a theme in my life, as well, ever since I was young. — Mamoru Oshii
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