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
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. — Dag Hammarskjold
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. — Marianne Williamson
You can't waste your life in insecure relationships. Either trust each other 100% or leave. — Steven Bartlett
The foundation of healthy independence is a securely attached relationship. — Amir Levine
We all have insecurities but you have to know you’re beautiful. — Nicki Minaj
I do feel entirely safe in a spacecraft. — Edward Higgins White
We were the first to prove that proof-of-stake can have the same security properties as Bitcoin. — Charles Hoskinson
At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69. — Eugene Ormandy
A secure base is a prerequisite for a child’s ability to explore, develop, and learn. — Amir Levine
Insecurity Image Quotes
Never speak from a place of hate, jealousy, anger or insecurity. Evaluate your words before you let them leave your lips. Sometimes it's best to be quiet.
Food Insecurity Quotes
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
Food insecurity and hunger are serious threats to children's health, growth, and development. The idea of not being able to put plentiful, nutritious food on the table for my girls is a horrifying thought. — Samantha Harris
The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children. — Tom Vilsack
Don't let insecurity ruin the beauty you were born with.
Nearly 40% of all food in this country is wasted, and there are over 49 million food-insecure people in the United States. Clearly we have an enormous opportunity if we can find a way to retrieve the imperfect food and to feed the hungry. — Dana Cowin
Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty - the realities of access to water and food - which creates the long-term drivers of our insecurity. Most wars are fought over scarce resources, and that is going to accelerate in the future. — Rajiv Shah
Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance coverage from extreme weather events. — Jacques Diouf
Until you cross the bridge of your insecurities, you can't begin to explore your possibilities.
The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount. Because before that I wasn't thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever. I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry. — Adrian Matejka
Federal nutrition programs are the first line of defense for food insecure Americans, but do not meet all of the needs of everyone who needs help. — Vicki Escarra
For instance, people who have to walk miles for water - and we just turn on the faucet and let it run. Or people right here in our country [USA] who are food insecure, and yet we as a nation throw out an inconceivable amount of food. — Joy Bryant
Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing. — Lester R. Brown
The Wisdom Of Insecurity Quotes
Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. — Thomas Merton
The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours. — Adyashanti
I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity. — Sally Kirkland
Arrogance is the camouflage of insecurity.
The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things. — Cherie Lunghi
Body Insecurity Quotes
Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body. — Erma Bombeck
Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body. — Devon Aoki
I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification. — Lady Gaga
Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud.
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
Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything. — Eminem
I had body insecurities when I was younger. I still do. — Ariel Winter
The desire for security and the fear of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.
Growing up, I felt insecure about my build. I didn't feel very feminine. But as time went on, I learned to completely embrace my body. — Hope Solo
Despite what I do for a living, I am very insecure about my body. — Erin Andrews
Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable. — Susie Orbach
It was a very vulnerable time going from being insecure about my body and who I am to becoming comfortable with me. I had to tune out what the hell everybody else had to say about who I was. When I was able to do that, I felt free. — Queen Latifah
Positive Insecurity Quotes
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. — Drew Barrymore
I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it? — Katrina Kaif
I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can. — Lily Cole
I am not insecure enough to count the bouquets I receive on my birthday, I don't assess my popularity by the number of magazine covers I am on, I don't get worried if my song is on the seventh position on countdown charts. — Shahrukh Khan
It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long. — Yoko Ono
At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated. — Vanessa Kirby
You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men. — Yoko Ono
Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad. — Auberon Waugh
Overcoming Insecurity Quotes
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
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
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. — Albert Einstein
As a young girl, I was much more preoccupied by my flaws. Everyone teased me because of my long, skinny neck. To hide my so-called deformity, I was wearing a turtleneck when I was 3! Yet my neck is probably my best asset. At the end of the day, what counts is the entire package. — Iman Abdulmajid
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. — Marianne Williamson
There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling. — Fred Durst
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
The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. — Theodore J. Forstmann
We are so hard on ourselves, it is unbelievable sometimes. The things we say to ourselves or think about when we look in the mirror are so cruel. We have to look at the power we do have and use it to overcome that voice of insecurity. — Erin Willett
Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height. — Katherine Webb
Relationship Insecurity Quotes
Attachment research shows that people tend to become more secure when they are in a relationship with someone secure. — Amir Levine
Dating is so insecure. My last relationship, I was always there for her and she dumped me. I told her about it. I said, "Remember when your grandma died? I was there. Remember when you flunked out of school? I was there. Remember when you lost your job? I was there!" She said, "I know — Tom Arnold
I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our superiority complex and forcing us to reconsider our relationship to animals. — Jonathan Balcombe
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
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
These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time. — Sherry Turkle
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
In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us. — Sue Johnson
The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do. — Ross Bleckner
It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings. — John Robert Seeley
Love Insecurity Quotes
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. — Bobby Darin
If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare. — Sofia Vergara
One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson
One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger. — Pittacus Lore
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 was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore — John Lennon
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. — Doc Childre
Jealousy doesn't show how much you love someone, it shows how insecure you are. — Valerie Quennessen
This time, I whispered that I loved him too. Then, I silently listed all the reason: I loved him for his gentleness. I loved him for being an amazing catch yet still vulnerable enough to be insecure. But most of all, I loved him for loving me. — Emily Giffin
Insecurity And Fear Quotes
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 was scared all the time in the 60s and anyone who wasn’t, was a liar or totally without imagination. — James L. Farmer, Jr.
Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities. — George Gerbner
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity. — John Lennon
As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not. — Jack Kornfield
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. — Nelson Mandela
Winning is in your DNA. The most high God breathed His life into you. You've got what it takes. This is your time. This is your moment. Shake off doubts, shake off fear and insecurity, and get ready for favor, get ready for increase, get ready for the fullness of your destiny. You can, you will!! — Joel Osteen
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
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great? — Marianne Williamson
Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don't even know. — Drake
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
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
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. — Lazarus Long
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
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. — Tim Ferriss
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. — Marianne Williamson
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
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. — Tim Ferriss
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
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
Jealousy And Insecurity Quotes
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
Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights. — Shannon Alder
Greed pulls people in, and fear pushes them out. — Naved Abdali
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. — Samuel Johnson
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. — Honore de Balzac
Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest. — Alfred Richard Orage
Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. — Jennifer James
Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative. — Osho
The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before. — Gordon Ramsay
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
Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and charismatic around others. — Mark Manson
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
Attachment security doesn’t mean there are no conflicts; it means conflicts can be managed with trust and respect. — Amir Levine
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
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
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
Insecure Quotes
The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel. — Steven Furtick
Walk away from 'friendships' that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you — Michelle Obama
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
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
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
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
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
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
Feeling Insecure Quotes
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
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
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
I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side. I've felt ugly and insecure. — Irina Shayk
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
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
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
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others — Robert Greene
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. — Piero Ferrucci
Don't let fear stop you. Don't give up because you are paralyzed by insecurity or overwhelmed by the odds, because in giving up, you give up hope. Understand that failure is a process in life, that only in trying can you enrich yourself and have the possibility of moving forward. The greatest obstacle in life is fear and giving up because of it. — Sonia Sotomayor
It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego. — Pema Chodron
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security — John Allen Paulos
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
One of the greatest rewards of making art is our ability to share it. Even if there is no audience to receive it, we build the muscle of making something and putting it out into the world. 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 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
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. — Barbara Walters
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