Insecurity Quotes - Page 23

• 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

  Rejection, Not Good Enough, Feelings

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• Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of a singer's insecurity with singing.

  Brian Chippendale

  Fall, Singing, Energy

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity...

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Media, Climate, Western

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Letter to George W. Bush, May 8, 2006.

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• Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wall, Men, Might

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.100, Spectra

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• No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Gone, Underestimate

  Dan Savage (2002). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America”, E P Dutton

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• There are only three kinds of people. LEADERS. Those who take charge, build, inspire, and create. FOLLOWERS. Those who support leaders and work to achieve mutually beneficial goals.... [and] DESTROYERS. Destroyers cannot find it within themselves to follow anyone, their hatred and insecurity is too pure to see strength in any OTHER being. The utterly lack the ability to inspire or create, so they do the only thing left to them -- they tear down all they come in contact with.

  Rick Remender

  Goal, People, Hatred

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• My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.

  George Soros

  Errors, Ready

  George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• Thanks to my ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady upbringing, I was given the gift of bone-crushing insecurity. One thing you'll notice about people with mental problems is constant self-absorbation. I think that's because it's such a struggle just to be who they are, so they have a hard time getting past it.

  Mark Oliver

  Crush, Struggle, Past

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• The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

  John Lennon

  People, Hypocrisy, Smoking

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• In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of registering and controlling them in the form of an organized public supervision of their labor, slavery is already afoot. When slavery shall succeed it will succeed through the acquiescence of those who will be enslaved, for they will prefer sufficiency and security with enslavement, to freedom, responsibility, insecurity and the threat of insufficiency.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (2009). “Essays of a Catholic”, p.13, TAN Books

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• When the mass of men are dispossessed - own nothing - they become wholly dependent upon the owners; and when those owners are in active competition to lower the cost of production the mass of men whom they exploit not only lack the power to order their own lives, but suffer from want and insecurity as well.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Order

  Hilaire Belloc (2017). “The Great Heresies”, p.110, Ignatius Press

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• I never tried to write for other people. I liked people who had problems I might have, because we all have insecurities, regrets. I like heroes who were not 100-percent perfect, who things to take care of.

  Stan Lee

  Regret, Hero, Writing

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

  Harriet Lerner

  Book, Self, Dollars

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1996). “Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life”

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• I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.

  Cathy Guisewite

  I Can, Conscience

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• Love fulfilled sees where we could have gone the way of love before, if we'd known how, and how insecurities limited many of our choices. Love fulfilled perceives new meaning and higher reasons behind many of the mysteries of why things happened as they did. Living from the heart is business - the business of caring for self and others.

  Doc Childre

  Love, Heart, Caring

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• That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me just beyond what I thought I could acomplish. Either way, it would wash over the same bedrock certainty: ultimately, I know myself.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Years, Way, Tides

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• How much of fashion is fueled by insecurity - for better or worse?

  Robin Givhan

  Fashion

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• Autonomous people, nations, and systems can promote each other's welfare; they do not have to fight each other like those whose inner insecurity and immaturity continually demand the demarcation of limits and postures of intimidation.

  Christa Wolf

  Fighting, People, Immaturity

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• I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

  Ben Whishaw

  Thinking, Degrees, Doe

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

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• Its either feast or famine, and thats the way its been for as long as I can remember. Ive spent my whole career thinking Ill never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Thinking, Careers, Long

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• I had body insecurities when I was younger. I still do.

  Ariel Winter

  Body, Stills

  "Ariel Winter on Her 'Body Insecurities': 'My Mother Wasn’t Supportive'". By Us Weekly Staff, www.usmagazine.com. March 8, 2013.

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• When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.

  Albert Brooks

  Couple, Class, Acting

  "Auteur Albert Brooks Feels the "Drive". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. September 14, 2011.

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• If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing it when we find it, instead we put it on the shelf so we can use it the next time we want to launch an attack against some foreign country. We're leaving ourselves at risk.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Leaving, Risk

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Distance, Thinking

  "Freedom and the Unknown". www.adyashanti.org. 2002.

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• Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

  Isaac Asimov

  Heart, Night, Sun

  Isaac Asimov (2008). “The Stars, Like Dust”, p.96, Macmillan

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