Insecure People Quotes

“One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“This is particularly true of those who "love too much" and those who tend to lose themselves in their relationships. Sometimes our love becomes distorted by our feelings of insecurity and our fear of abandonment. This is the often the case with those who become overly controlling and overly smothering of their partner. Others become emotionally abusive because of their fear of intimacy.”
― Beverly Engel, The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing

“If you can’t love someone, leave them for those who can.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“People spend money they don’t have on clothes and accessories they don’t need to fill a void. No matter how much they invest in their own physical reconstruction (or in some cases deconstruction), they are still unhappy with who they see in the mirror. Don’t get me wrong. We all do things to enhance our personal appearance, some more than others. But changing what’s on the outside will not resolve deep-rooted issues.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“People outwardly project their innermost insecurities.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Some people swim as fast as they can. Faster than most. They can never stop and rest for long, and they never reach their destination, for they are constantly swimming upstream. But eventually they become strong, in their own way.”
― Robert Black

“If there is one thing I know, it's that with every great achievement in our lives, there is an insecure idiot hiding around the corner waiting to take a baseball bat to it.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“Insecure people seek answers in all the wrong places.”
― Robert Black

“There are few things that weigh on a person’s ability to grow and thrive more than insecurity. One critique, one insult, one harsh act could cripple a person who is not confident enough in their own skin to ignore the comments.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“In my experience, insecure people constantly need to show that they are superior to others, whether they are or not, and they will often stoop to unscrupulous tactics to achieve this, the most common being to persistently mock, criticize, and put others down, the objective being to lower the status of the other person in the eyes of others, thus easing their own feelings of insecurity, and inadequacy. Secure people, on the other hand, do not have this need.”
― Robert Black, Laowai

“Sometimes it seems, we are so diminished by our own shortcomings we are unable to celebrate the success of others.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings

“Always remember, if someone keeps putting you down to make themselves feel or look better, be flattered that they chose you. Their insecurity always speaks louder when they need to use someone else to make them feel validated. Confidence never calls for verbal infliction.”
― Karen A. Baquiran

“Labels (of any kind) are simply band-aids people apply to their lives to mask the wounds of their insecurities.”
― Carlos Wallace

“I imagine everyone wears layered masks, and parades around a variety or panoply of false selves depending on the occasion. Normal people do that out of their own insecurities and ambitions. Mind-controlled people are hollow because their minds were taken away from them. Their controllers instruct these shells of people about what to do and when. Theirs is institutionalized, manufactured falsity.”
― Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

“A person who is confident and capable
will never feel insecure.”
― Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

“Insecure people play with someone else’s feelings. Secure people respect the feelings of others.”
― Karon Waddell

“If you are insecure about my nothing, you are empty”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Most people don’t help their friends because they fear they might grow an inch taller than them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“Sometimes what we see in our judgement to other individuals are the things that we are trying to hide.”
― Jestoni Sacay

“I'm insecure, but at the same time, I'm pushy and driven. Despite this, I do have vague symptoms and sometimes my addled brain just be playing with it. If that makes my life all topsy-turvy and me a bewildered, That's somewhat okay! Accepted.”
― Mohammed Israil

“What you deeply resent in another, is actually a reflection of what you wish you had or what you wish you could be. Resentful of how another speaks her mind? Because you were silenced and therefore fell silent. Resentful of how another wears (or doesn't wear) whatever she wants? Because you are controlled by your own ideas of morality and societal expectations. Resentful of how another's life is not constructed to pander and please others? Because you are bound by the cruel chains of people-pleasing, you don't know how to break out of. What you resent in others is what you actually wish you could be.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Vehicles need maintenance, not friendships.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Jealousy comes from deep within; it just takes time to unfold.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Mina brister är det som väcker mig på morgnarna och det som håller mig vaken varenda natt.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“It is heartbreaking to see someone so cherished being washed away by a tidal wave of deep insecurities.”
― Eduvie Donald

“An insecure person is a burden on their partner.”
― Garima Soni - words world