Insecurity Quotes · Page 12

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

— Dag Hammarskjold

“Do not be threatened by rude people because rudeness is a sign of insecurity.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Sometimes, my dad calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear him.”

— Stephen Chbosky

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

— Robert Frost

When you are warm-hearted, there is no room for anger, jealousy or insecurity.

— Dalai Lama

“Pride is just another word for insecurity and fear”

— Penny Reid

I hate it when skinny people say they ain't skinny enough.

— Anonymous

Hearing yourself on a recording and asking if that's what you really sound like.

— Anonymous

“Too much respect for people who are not respectful to you is a sure sign of insecurity.”

— Alice Walker

Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity.

— Tyler Joseph

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

— Deepak Chopra

The steps of insecurity: Comparison, Compensation, Competition, Compulsion, Condemnation, Control.

— Anonymous

Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

— Walter Lippmann

“There was something in him, lighter than ego but darker than insecurity, that needed constant buffing, polishing, waxing.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought…

— David Whyte

“The dominant social force that drives our thinking and our actions is the unconscious search and need for social proof.”

— Dragos Bratasanu

I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that…

— Elisabeth Shue

We're all our own worst critics and so hard on ourselves, but for me, my biggest insecurity is my arms. I just…

— Khloe Kardashian

If you have the courage to cut yourself, why not use that courage to find someone else? There will always be plenty…

— Anonymous

“We both keep quiet. Again. Today just seems like a day for it. It’s easier that way. You don’t have to say…

— Anna B. Doe

I suppose my insecurity with dating someone a lot younger would be that he'd get to a point where he thought I…

— Coleen Nolan

You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so…

— Iyanla Vanzant

If you don't create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressive politics is dead. That…

— David Blunkett

“He's losing weight," I say. "He doesn't sleep anymore." It occurs to me that this is how cults weaken the will of…

— Melissa Bank

I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather,…

— Judith Butler

According to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the development of love and compassion. The more concerned…

— Dalai Lama

There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a…

— Richard M. Weaver

I realized that the reason why my head was so cluttered and why I was so unstable and not taking care of…

— Benjamin Booker

Your desintation is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the…

— Gary Zukav

“Don't be afraid to write. I think a lot of writers of all ages have a fear that they aren't any good…

— Anonymous

I am critical of myself like everyone else. You go to a movie theater and you are forty feet high. I had…

— Chris Pine

Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like…

— Steve Erickson

Shit I hate when skinny people complain how fat they are.

— Anonymous

“Your insecurity is when you compare your polaroid with someone else's glamour shot.”

— Brian Hooten

We want to know. If we don't know, we don't feel safe, we don't feel secure.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

— Judith Thurman

“Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid.”

— Su-Mari Diedericks

With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.

— Steven Kotler

I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.

— Don Rickles

We all have our fears, our insecurities. I'm not different from anyone else.

— Five for Fighting