Quotes about Insecurity

I didn't give myself enough love, so I was searching for it in other places, and it was a never ending struggle.

Life is very short, and if you worry what people think of you, if you second-guess yourself, you're in trouble.

What is most startling in reading a detailed explanation of what goes on beneath the surface at the age of fifteen is that the same dynamics continue into the twenties, thirties, fifties, seventies, and nineties. We remain trapped in living a pretend life out of an unhealthy concern for what other people think.

Some of us are addicted to what others think.

Our self-image soars with a compliment and is devastated by a criticism.

A child doesn't say, "What's wrong with this environment where I am growing up?" They think, What's wrong with me?

And Teddy worried lots about The fact that he was rather stout. He thought: "If only I were thin! But how does anyone begin?

It is hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, 'when you're only a Very Small Animal.

I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

I'm a decent-looking guy, but I've never walked into a room and got a girl because of how I looked. Look, I'm never excluded because of my looks. I just don't stand out.