Self-doubt Quotes - Page 2

• Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Skills, Doubt

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• Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.

  Wayne Dyer

  Real, Magic Kingdom, Self

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• I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

  Kobe Bryant

  Hurt, Badass, Night

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• Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Jobs, Ocean

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

  Khalil Gibran

  Self Confidence, People, Doubt

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• Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear

  Robin Sharma

  Greatness, Self, Enemy

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 25, 2013

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• I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Self, Long, Creative

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

  Eric Maisel

  Thinking, Self, Anxiety

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.231, Penguin

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• I'm just funnier when I'm drunk. Not falling-down drunk, just drunk enough to lose the self-doubt.

  Doug Stanhope

  Fall, Self, Drunk

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• I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

  Geri Halliwell

  Thinking, Self, Doubt

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• I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.

  Marc Almond

  Self, Doubt

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I’ve questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.

  Taylor Swift

  Self, Optimism, Doubt

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• However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Moving, Self, Doubt

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• Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there's something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas doesn't mean that you have generally low self-esteem. And you have the power to get yourself out of feeling that way.

  Amy Cuddy

  Self Esteem, Mean, Feelings

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something that I couldn't finish That I couldn't care about That I couldn't remember starting in the first place I don't want to know you You went years without me You might as well keep going.

  Henry Rollins

  Self, Should Have, Years

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• Self-doubt kills talent.

  Edie McClurg

  Self, Doubt, Talent

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• Listen to any self doubt for anything that needs to be addressed, address it, and keep rocking!

  David Schlussel

  Self, Doubt, Needs

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• Self-doubt is common, but when it impedes you from attaining your goals it’s time to take action. This book shows you how to move beyond feeling like an imposter so that you can achieve your full personal and professional potential.

  Lois P Frankel

  Moving, Book, Self

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• I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

  John Banville

  Self, Doubt

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• The self doubt can be a fantastic opportunity to self-reflect and see where you can grow and be stronger.

  Kathryn Budig

  Opportunity, Self, Doubt

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• I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

  J. Cole

  Self, Healthy, Doubt

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• Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.

  Niecy Nash

  Beautiful, Children, Self Esteem

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• I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

  Elia Kazan

  Self, Doubt, Suffering

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• For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

  Charley Pride

  Confidence, Self, Doubt

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back off. I will NEVER give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I'll be back.

  Steven Pressfield

  Creativity, Self, Flames

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