Insecurity Quotes - Page 11

• I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

  Christopher Atkins

  Thinking, Excellent, Supposed To Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

  Alan Ladd

  Insecure, Long, Guy

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• To me, beauty is confidence. I think I’m pretty confident in the decisions and the choices I make in my personal life and career, but the same time I also let my fans know that, just like them, I have insecurities. I have moments when I don’t feel good about myself. I think people can forget that, at the end of the day, I’m just a normal girl dealing with lots of the same issues as them.

  Selena

  Girl, Thinking, Careers

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• These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having power over them. Persecutors may act grandiose and self-righteous to mask their own insecurity.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Inspirational, Self, Views

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• He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

  Jack Newfield

  Vanity, Boxing, Vices

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• I believe in the eternal security of the believer and in the insecurity of the make-believer.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Christian, Believe, Eternal

  J. Vernon McGee (1984). “Genesis through Revelation: 5 Volumes Genesis - Revelation”, p.6023, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.

  William H. Calvin

  Risk, Usual, World

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• We have two main instruments: the mind and the heart. The mind finds it difficult to be happy, precisely because the mind consciously enjoys the sense of separativity. It is always judging and doubting the reality in others. This is the human mind, the ordinary physical mind, the earth-bound mind. But we also have the aspiring heart, the loving heart. This loving heart is free from insecurity, for it has already established its oneness with the rest of the world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Reality, Two

  "And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting".

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• Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

  Margaret Mead

  Jealousy, Depth, Degrees

  Margaret Mead, William O. Beeman (2004). “Studying Contemporary Western Society: Method and Theory”, p.293, Berghahn Books

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• The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Mother, Father

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.26, Atlantic Monthly Press

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

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Knowing, Doors

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• The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Dream, Military, Hydrogen Bomb

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• Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure. Most spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That's how they avoid feeling insecure.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Moving, Insecure

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• Don't get offended, there's no need for insecurity,
  Age is but a number, it's all about maturity.

  Chi-Ali

  Rap, Maturity, Numbers

  Song: Age Ain't Nothing But A No

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• After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had never noticed before. I was struggling daily with pride and insecurity, homesickness and loneliness, with the burden of picking up my cross and following Jesus. This journey produced a new hunger for redemption in me.

  Bethany Dillon

  Jesus, Loneliness, Struggle

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• 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

  Strong, Fear, Simple

  Nancy Signorielli, George Gerbner (1988). “Violence and Terror in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography”, p.21, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork

  Elaine Stritch

  Song, Morocco, Way

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• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  Larry Hovis

  Actors, Done, Competent

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• There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.

  Bill Walsh

  Real, Team, Organization

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• I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't have the same mindset either, when I was wracked with self-consciousness and insecurity. Now I really appreciate my maturity as a woman, my depth of spirit and soul and my understanding of who I am and what's important to me.

  Elle Macpherson

  Maturity, Self, Who I Am

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• I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears. My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Share, Hopes And Fears

  "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.

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• In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it.

  Auberon Waugh

  Thinking, Self, Feelings

  Auberon Waugh (1991). “Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography”, Vintage

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• I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. The insecurity that you feel, and the paranoia that you feel, have been around for a long time - you know it's a liar because it's been lying to you all along - every time you start something new.

  John Cusack

  Time, Liars, Lying

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• Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

  Luke Evans

  Believe, Men, Shows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

  Kurt Russell

  Cameras, Firsts, Young

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