Insecurity Quotes

• When I used to teach yoga in Bangalore and Mumbai, I noticed many clients struggling to cope with their weight. During some days, they would come in with plans to work out harder than usual because of events they'd have to attend later that week. The insecurity of appearance is something everyone goes through... even I.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Work
  • Yoga
  • Insecurity

• I certainly wished I hadn't stressed quite as much or had such insecurity at times. I wish I had trusted my instincts on some occasions when I didn't and I wish I had listened to better advice when I didn't. But overall, I have to look at the glass as half full and acknowledge that I am all of the moments of my life, the good and the not so good.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Tragedy
  • Hilarious
  • Fat

• It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Always
  • Dreams
  • Your Dreams

• If you’ve had to overcome an obstacle or insecurity or fear... genuinely you can bet on that person because they have gathered themselves and found through their inner strength, they have determination, they have grit.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Fear
  • Determination
  • Grit

• Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Heart
  • Sick
  • Temptation

• I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Same
  • Strength

• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self-worth is diminished if they are not 'naturally' in charge as men.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Up
  • Men
  • Insecurity

• I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Black
  • City
  • Water

• National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Fear
  • Confidence
  • Body

• It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Best
  • End

• True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.

  

  Oliver Burkeman
  • True
  • Lies
  • Insecurity

• Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Guilty

• Insecurity is very common among actors. When I started giving interviews and talking to people that I didn't know, it was a nightmare. I've learned how to deal with interviews and insecurity; I've gotten used to it.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • People
  • Giving
  • Insecurity

• Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

  

  Delta Goodrem
  • Words
  • Cancer
  • Insecurity

• The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.

  

  Kaitlin Doubleday
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Deep

• Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

  

  Debra Winger
  • Bad
  • Insecurity

• For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Important
  • Change
  • Myself

• Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Force
  • Insecurity

• It is assumed by many reformers that the principal and major cause of unhappiness is economic insecurity, but this theory forgets that there are economic problems only because men have not solved the problems of their own souls. Economic disorder is a symptom of spiritual disorder.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Men
  • Spiritual
  • Insecurity

• There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • People
  • Insecurity
  • Too Much

• I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did, and I get the sweats, I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Insecurity

• I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

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