Insecurity Quotes

• Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

  John Allen Paulos

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  John Allen Paulos (2007). “A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market”, p.5, Basic Books

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• Comparison is the thief of joy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Healing, Feel Good, Joy

  "Becoming a Great School: Harnessing the Powers of Quality Management and Collaborative Leadership". Book by Dr. Kenneth B. Cooper, Nels Gustafson and Joseph G. Salah (p. 9), December 24, 2013.

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• 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

  Success, Nice, Women

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• Only the insecure strive for security.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Spiritual, Insecure

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2014). “I Can See Clearly Now”, p.88, Hay House, Inc

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• Happiness is only available with total acceptance of who you are, including all your fears, worries, and anxiety. It will be there for you when you can see your own inner beauty. You cannot achieve happiness without using your past, your flaws, insecurities, and imperfections in a positive way. It is about letting go and detaching from unhealthy people, ideas, and lifestyle choices, and replacing them with interdependent, pro-active ways of thinking and responding.

  Lucinda Bassett

  Happiness, Letting Go, Acceptance

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sad, Jealousy, Knowledge

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• 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

  Giving Up, Moving, Don't Give Up

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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

  Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jun 29, 2014

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

  Selena Gomez

  Insecure, Good Enough, Made

  Song: Who Says Rox, Album: For You, 2014

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• He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I might suffer. The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, God, Talking

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

  Steven Furtick

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity.

  Beth Moore

  Roots, Soil

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• Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

  Beth Moore

  Insecure, Men, Self

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• Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

  Beth Moore

  Men, Mirrors, Guy

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.7, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  Beth Moore

  Art, Perfectionism, Form

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.19, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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  I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

  Adele

  Funny, Hater, Bullying

  "Adele Talks Body Image Pride, Pre-Show Sickness In Vogue UK". Vogue Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don't even know.

  Drake

  Hate, Insecure, Ugly Things

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• Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.

  Igor Babailov

  Humility, Artist, Flying

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• 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?

  Beth Moore

  Needs, Lines, Want

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.27, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don't feel that way because of the wounds and the scars we carry from the past or because of the uncertainty of the future. It is doubtful that we came to feel undeserving on our own. We were helped to feel unworthy. We were taught it in a thousand ways when we were little, and we learned our lessons well.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Past, Needs

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

  Albert Einstein

  Pain, Fear, Taken

  Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

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

  Naomi Campbell

  Self Esteem, Loneliness, Issues

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• 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

  Success, Worry, Envy

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.4, Profile Books

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