Quotes tagged ‘Self-Doubt’

“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, slamonline.com

“Dude, you're a Cohen now. Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.”

— Allan Heinberg, Josh Schwartz, Seth Cohen, Adam Brody, imdb.com

“The problem, right, between rum and gin, is that gin, right, it leads to the melancholy. Whereas rum incites violence, it also allows you to be liberated from your self-doubt.”

— Steven Knight, Alfie Solomons, Tom Hardy, imdb.com

“Self doubt is fear. Fear breeds failure . . . throw that self doubt in the garbage.”

— Serena Williams, twitter.com

“Of course I'm holding back, I'm insane, you idiot! Remember the other day when you told me I had pit stains? Well, I have cried every 15 minutes on the half hour since you told me that. I am racked with self-doubt, I have panic attacks, I'm claustrophobic, germaphobic, phobia phobic, I talk to mysel…”

— Janae Bakken, Debra Fordham, Elliot Reid, Sarah Chalke, imdb.com

“Sometimes you be so distracted by those that doubt your skills that you end up in a dark space. Well listen, just know there will always be doubters but don’t let them DIM YOUR LIGHT. You keep going & GLOWING.”

— Missy Elliott, twitter.com

“What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said.”

— Nora Ephron, m.imdb.com

“What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said.”

— Nora Ephron, m.imdb.com

“You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.”

— Roy T. Bennett, twitter.com

“when creating. be kind to your doubt. hear it out. thank it for its concern. and reassure it that you are an artist. and risk is essential.”

— Nayyirah Waheed, twitter.com

“Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”

— Unknown, fakebuddhaquotes.com

“I may turn out an intellectual, but I’ll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“I just want to be me - I just want to be useful and… content. I want to stop wondering if I’ll ever feel whole and just be whole. I want to have a purpose, one that I can look at without feeling I’m less than I was.”

— Ellis O'Neal, amazon.com

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

“Don’t sabotage yourself. There are enough people out there who’ll do it for you. Don’t let the assholes win.”

— Adam Gnade, amazon.com

“Almost relationships have a lasting effect on us and all our future relationships. They shake us up and our belief system. They create trust issues. They make us feel that we don’t deserve real relationships and that we somehow always get stuck in the vicious cycle of the almosts because we are not…”

— Kiran Karamchandani, thoughtcatalog.com

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

“You are a stupidly capable human being when you get out of your own way.”

— Tatiana Pérez, thoughtcatalog.com

“I could keep going forever, listing all my flaws in order from the most innocuous to the least. I am afraid of spiders... I fall in love too easily... I have fierce spells of self-doubt.”

— Nina LaCour, amazon.com