Self Doubt Quotes
133 quotes by 113 authors
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I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
— Elia Kazan
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I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection…
— Hugh Laurie
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It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing…
— Heath Ledger
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I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will…
— Alanis Morissette
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The…
— Sylvia Plath
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Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show…
— Steven Pressfield
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As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you…
— Nina Simone
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Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
— Lillian Smith
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I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.
— Sigourney Weaver
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Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.
— Stephen King
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And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
— Anne Rice
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Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something…
— Henry Rollins
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Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
— Sylvia Plath
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The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in…
— Robertson Davies
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America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
— Malcolm X
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Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to…
— Steven Pressfield
Who Wrote These Self Doubt Quotes
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