Insecurity Quotes - Page 15

• I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

  Zach Braff

  Worry, Driven, Conversation

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• If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

  Peter Mandelson

  Squares, Europe, Pressure

  "Interview: EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

  Michael Bergin

  Fuel, Made, Said

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• There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

  Illeana Douglas

  People, Whispering, Too Much

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• Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

  Catherine Keener

  Crippled

  "Not just a chick thing". Interview with Simon Braund, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2002.

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• The idea that boxing lends itself to cinema so well is because it's usually a morality play - good against evil, insecurity and triumph, fear strikes out, so the audience can really get drawn into the drama of it. Also, it was sensual and very primal. I think subliminaly we do two things - life is a fight, life is a struggle and we understand that from our early, early, early ancestors, and life is a race.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Drama, Struggle, Fighting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the ­extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Power, Insomnia, Suffering

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• 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

  War, Reality, Long

  "Rajiv Shah: Our aid work is for the American people". Interview with Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2011.

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• Our chaotic economic situation has convinced so many of our young people that there is no room for them. They become uncertain andrestless and morbid; they grab at false promises, embrace false gods and judge things by treacherous values. Their insecurity makes them believe that tomorrow doesn't matter and the ineffectualness of their lives makes them deny the ideals which we of an older generation acknowledged.

  Hortense Odlum

  Believe, Judging, People

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• 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

  Winning, Destiny, Dna

  Joel Osteen (2014). “You Can, You Will: 8 Undeniable Qualities of a Winner”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place for it and it comes from insecurity.

  Theo Hutchcraft

  Art, Thinking, Worst

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.

  Elle Macpherson

  Insecure, Feelings, Facts

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

  Namie Amuro

  Insecure, People, Should

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• ...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of insecurity, with dire consequences. Certain pathologies are increasing, with their psychological consequences; fear and desperation grip the hearts of many people, even in the so-called rich countries; the joy of life is diminishing; indecency and violence are on the rise; poverty is becoming more and more evident. People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Struggle, Heart

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• 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

  Community, Dying, Desire

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• I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

  Nicholas Brendon

  Self, People, Feelings

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• I think it's really important to love yourself. Because I feel like a lot of the time, especially right now, I've noticed that insecurity is something that's so common that it's not glorified but like romanticized. And it shouldn't be because at the end of the day you have to live with yourself and be happy with who you are. If not, then you're not going to be a happy individual and whatever people say will get to you. So you have to know who you are and like it that way.

  Camila Cabello

  Love You, Thinking, People

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• With girls, there's an insecurity that starts early on. It hangs around them, like some annoying kid from down the block who won't take the hint and go home when dinnertime comes. And moms are usually not great at giving their daughters confidence.

  Steve Schirripa

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

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• The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey
  Begins.

  Shahid Kapoor

  Journey, Conviction, Our Lives

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• I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.

  David Oyelowo

  Watches, Actors, World

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• A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created.

  Charles Darwin

  Reflection, Earthquakes, Ideas

  Charles Darwin, R. D. Keynes (2001). “Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary”, p.292, Cambridge University Press

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• Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life .

  Alessandro Nivola

  Ups & Downs, Frightening, Knows

  "Tribeca Interview: Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones : Rock God Meets Rock Child". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.

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• Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Growth

  Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2012). “Heart Of The Soul: Emotional Awareness”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• We live in an uncertain world and we want to believe that what a man is and what a woman is-I know that. And people don't want to critically interrogate the world around them. Whenever I'm afraid of something or I'm threatened by something, it's because it brings up some sort of insecurity in me. I think the reality is that most of us are insecure about our gender. They think, 'Okay, if there's this trans person over here, then what does that make me?

  Laverne Cox

  Believe, Pride, Gay

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• Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

  Judith Thurman

  Luxury

  Judith Thurman (2008). “Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire”, p.177, Macmillan

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