Insecurity Quotes

“Be certain independent of facts, when you doubt yourself, you cannot be, you cannot do and you cannot have.”
― Meir Ezra

“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

“Parents who feel good about themselves do not have to control their adult children. But [toxic parents] operate from a deep sense of dissatisfaction with their lives and a fear of abandonment. Their child's independence is like the loss of a limb to them. As the child grows older, it becomes ever more important for the parents to pull the strings that keep the child dependent. As long as toxic parents can make their son or daughter feel like a child, they can maintain control.”
― Susan Forward, Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

“One’s lack of confidence over oneself contributes to one’s downfall, even if such a downfall is avoidable. It diminishes whatever probabilities there are of overcoming the hurdles on the path to our success. It strips us of our ability to win a battle even when the circumstances favor us. Most of our strength, capacity and resilience gets nullified when we harbor the slightest of doubts over our own adequacies. The more the sense of insecurity, the closer we move towards defeat.”
― Nihar Satpathy, The Puzzles of Life

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

“Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others, we are withholding from ourselves.”
― Marianne Williamson

“Only if you could love the other without insecurity, without possessiveness, without reward, then you could taste the real infinite sweetness of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“If I ask you to dance, you'll know I've been waiting
So instead, I will whistle in the cold under my umbrella,
Carrying a tune that I know you'd be hating,
Killing what I want the most in case it won't want me.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?

“Mari kita tidak membahas perihal sempurna,
karena sempurna bisa relatif bagi sesiapa.

Mari membahas perihal ketidaksempurnaan,
dengan kata yang tidak menghina,
agar semua terasa sama;
agar semua terasa setara.”
― Robi Aulia Abdi (@aksarataksa)

“With his head on the fender and all his limbs relaxed, he felt almost as safe as he felt once when his mother killed a ghost in the passage by carrying him through it in her arms. There was no ghost now; he was frightened at reality; he was frightened at the splendors and horrors of the world.”
― E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey

“Most people often greet out of pity or insecurity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I used to tell myself I had to be perfect and then things would fall into place, but only now do I realize that is far from the case. I am imperfectly perfect, i'm accepting all my flaws. I'm not longer letting my insecurities put my life on pause.”
― Monica Carolan, Only If You Let Them

“Insecurity is a funny thing not only it stops us from trusting other people, but also our own abilities.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“All too often the compliment we have just been paid is merely a repayment for the compliment we have just paid.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Fame and insecurity don’t usually mix well. Though the fame maybe easily attainable, acceptance by the masses to one’s satisfaction, usually isn’t.”
― Robert Black

“Humans are lamentably insecure creatures, and often they pick up their modern devices to alleviate that insecurity, in a subconscious attempt to receive some thrill and reward. And the longer we keep on practicing such habit, the more hooked we get to our devices, often to the point of losing our mental stability. So, devices that were mainly invented as means of communication have become weapons of mental devastation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gospel of Technology

“Will patrols his heterosexuality like a prison guard who has recently lost faith in the penal system. Or maybe one who favours reform of the penile system (thanks and sorry . . .).”
― Robert Webb, How Not To Be a Boy

“When he first met her odd, detached parents he understood that Heather had grown up starved of love, and when you're starved of something you should receive in abundance, you never quite trust it.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“Sex is often, or even usually, a woman’s conscious or subconscious way of paying a man for the service he provides, or has provided, of making her feel special, happy, alive, like the most important person … or merely important.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Was that supposed to be funny? “Why is she saying stuff like that to you?” I bit out.

Caro rolled her eyes.
“Oh, don’t be such a prude, Sebastian! It’s just a joke. She’s always nagging me to find a man.”

“What about me?” I growled, my tone angrier than I’d intended.

Caro huffed quietly. “I haven’t told anyone about you. I like having you to myself. But I will, if you want me to.”

Was she ashamed of me? Was this just a summer fling to her after all?
The old fears rushed back—I was a secret, her dirty little secret. Again.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, Semper Fi

“Insecurity paralyses, makes one feel half-dead,
especially if one is already tied to the hospital bed.”
― Eleni Cay, The Love Virus

“Often, when a man encounters a moment of extreme trial, his inner fears come out in the form of a specific kind of excuse. I hate to dismiss those excuses as only that, because they also often reveal a deep truth about that man, and what he believes about himself.
I am not strong enough.
I am not smart enough.
I am not rich enough.
I am not young enough.
I am not old enough.
I am not MAN enough.
Men. These are lies. These are weapons fashioned to bring you down.”
― Josh Hatcher

“I had a long talk with my husband last night,' Abigail explained, 'and he made me realize that I have to choose which voices to believe. I can believe the ones that tell me I'm not good enough or brave enough or pretty enough and let them skew my perception of events, or I can push aside that clamor and seek out the voice that tells me I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”
― Karen Witemeyer, More Than Words Can Say

“Dans la vie y'a pas de grands, y'a pas de petits. La bonne longueur pour les jambes, c'est quand les pieds touchent par terre.

In life, there are no tall or short people. The right length for a person's legs is when their feet touch the ground.”
― Coluche

“Future is a figment of your imagination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Monk Meets World

“Maslow was right. Insecurity is main source of ego and aggression. Achievements and success lead.”
― Talees Rizvi, 21 Day Target and Achievement Planner [Use Only Printed Work Book: LIFE IS SIMPLE HENCE SIMPLE WORKBOOK

“My love says I am not a fool but I will play dumb for you. He tells me sweet nothings and calls only on the weekends. On Mondays I find our love in a bottle. On Tuesdays it clouds a Joint. He texts to confirm plans.
Tells me to shave downstairs for next time.
And I listen. Because I am young. Naïve.
A little bit desperate and kind of hungry.
There is this way he almost loves me. It's never enough but I always stay.”
― Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.

“Men often used that phrase: "drop some weight." They said it without shame or emotion, as if the weight were an object they could easily put down when they chose. Women said they needed to "lose weight," with their eyes down, as if the extra weight was part of them, a terrible sin they'd committed.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“We often do or speak, not because of necessity, but because of insecurity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“From a Buddhist perspective, there is really nothing but resistance to be analyzed; there is no true self waiting in the wings to be released. Only by revealing the insecurity can a measure of freedom be gained. When we can know our fear as fear and surround it with the patience of Buddha, we can begin to rest in our own minds and approach those to whom we would like to feel close.”
― Mark Epstein, Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy From A Buddhist Perspective