Insecurity Quotes

I think now that this obsession with identifying racism, which I saw so often among Somalis too, was really a comfort mechanism, to keep people from feeling personally inadequate and to externalize the causes of their unhappiness.

~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Some wo/men are so possessive … you end up missing missing them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.

~ Rebecca O'donnell

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.

~ A.j. Darkholme

If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.

~ Alexandra Robbins

You know what would be fun,” our school’s administration likely thought, huffing glue out of an old sock. “What if we make our cruellest eleven-year-olds assess each other in wet spandex for an hour every day for a week in the dead of winter?

~ Scaachi Koul

Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.

~ William Giraldi

Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone.

~ Shannon L. Alder

True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.

~ Jewel

It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

~ Fiona Apple

The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

~ Rachel Hartman

The enemy uses those things your insecure about. Free yourself and take your power back by being secure in who you are - flaws and all.

~ Yvonne Pierre

I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the layers, a crude little peg with a face is the truth of me.

~ Wendy Mcclure

Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There's no room in perfection for insecurity.

~ R.k. Lilley

Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is tragic the way fearful people put all of their fears and insecurities into others, the way they strangle their dreams — often in the name of love.

~ Bryant Mcgill

This is not a guilty pleasure of mine, simply because I don't believe in guilty pleasures. Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.

~ James Kakalios

One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.

~ Joe Hill

People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

INSECURITY breeds JEALOUSY / JEALOUSY creates ENVY / ENVY causes self-destruction / a hater is made up of all three. Just remember you are an opportunity away from being hated on yourself!

~ Carlos Wallace

I'm not saying you are jealous or insecure. I'm just saying that you obsessing over another person's accomplishments makes you look that way.

~ Dan Pearce

I was that stupid, I realized. I was also stupid enough not to realize that sometimes even the most beautiful souls need to be shown love once in a while.

~ Chamera Sampson

I am sure that I am in possession of a soul that is at the very least, a thousand years old. And I say this not on a whim; I say this as someone who is sure of something, who is not thinking fancifully but who is thinking solidly and fully. So why is it that I am childlike and playful? There is only one answer to this, and that is, after existing for a very long time, one learns the skill of retaining childlikeness and the state of childlikeness, which is called playfulness. The immature are not childlike and they are not playful; rather, they are manipulative and insecure. Manipulation is the game of the immature and insecurity is their state of being. I’m saying this because I want to draw the great distinction in the sand very clearly. The older your soul becomes, the more childlike it will be in texture. But we only make playtime out of small and joyful things; there is no playtime when it comes to bravery, honesty, and trust.

~ C. Joybell C.

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

~ Su-Mari Diedericks

I learned something important that night. You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

~ Cecelia Ahern

The more you care, the more you fear.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

~ Clint Eastwood

The earthquake of discomfort you feel moving inside of you when someone insults you is your own insecurity.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Hypocrisy/hi pakrise/ noun1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Unfortunately, I am only myself. I am scared and alone and unsure, but I am practicing. I am scared and alone and unsure, but that doesn't mean I always will be.Like AJ repeating words, I can repeat being me, until I start to believe it.

~ Lisa Burstein

Insecurity takes on various disguises. Cockiness and arrogance are among the most common.

~ Luigina Sgarro

The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón