523 Quotes About Insecurity

Humans are lamentably insecure creatures.

Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.

The more you care, the more you fear.

Outwardly I was all confidence and openness; inwardly I was spiteful and lonely and unaware of how to relate to the world. I wanted so much to be good but only knew how to appear that way by being bad.

As cliché as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence.

The dominant social force that drives our thinking and our actions is the unconscious search and need for social proof.

If someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, belittle them. It's better to be an asshole than look stupid.