Quotes about Insecurity

Consider your own deepest fears-real or imagined. Actually all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.

If someone says something that has no basis in truth, it doesn't bother us much. It's the things we fear they might be right about that hurt.

It's the voices in your head that speak doubt and insecurity and fear and anxiety. Like a tape that's jammed on repeat, these destructive messages will drain an extraordinary amount of your energies if you aren't clear and focused and grounded.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

Everyone creates what he fears.

Comparison may be a natural thing everybody does, but people in leadership and in helping ministries need to avoid it at all costs because it feeds either insecurity or pride, not humility and trust in God.

Attachment to money will always create insecurity no matter how much money you have in the bank.

The ego wants to acquire things out of insecurity, out of a sense of lack. Remind yourself that everything comes and goes except the soul. It's from the soul that a person gains a sense of inner fulfillment. The soul lacks nothing and therefore has no anxiety about the outside world: gain is not a need, loss is not a threat.

No external experience will support us, because the flux of events is inescapable. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.