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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
Cecelia, as with every look and gesture she let us know, was entirely at ease only in the company of her equals—a company that included, besides herself, only her sister. And of course Cecelia held some secret doubts about herself; you can't dislike nearly everybody and be quite certain that you have exempted yourself.
— Wendell Berry
Anlay???n ötesindeki sevgi dedikleri bu iÅŸte: bu gurur, yan?m?zda getirdiÄŸimiz, ameliyat odalar?na ta??d???m?z, inatla, k?zg?nl?kla yeniden topraÄŸa götürdüÄŸümüz bu iÄŸrenç ç?plakl???m?z? saklama isteÄŸimiz.
— William Faulkner
I'm scared of him, said Piggy, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again, it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.
— William Golding
A man that is afraid is never a man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.
— Lauren Bacall
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
— Washington Irving
I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.
— Marilyn Monroe
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
— Steven Pressfield
Neal huffed. Frustrated. "I hate that you thought I wouldn't call--I hate that everything is so tentative between us right now. When did everything get so tentative?
— Rainbow Rowell
I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.
— Mike Posner