182 Quotes About Self-doubt

Never let fear hold you captive. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. Never let frustration hold you captive.

Self-doubt and lack of conscious awareness undermine a person’s quest to live a life of dutiful service. Self-assurance infuses us with poise and the strength of character to blunt our destructive impulses. Self-awareness allows us to be cognizant of the whirlwind of infinite beauty that surrounds us and reinforces us with the forte to apply our vibrant life force in an expressive motif that exposes the mistiness of our inner soul to the outer world.

Just be yourself instead of trying to prove yourself. For if you do, the former will automatically take care of the latter.

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

When one falls his shadow always embraces him, and his empty place is already someone else's.Kushal Poddar, Poet

Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to.

However far I’ve come, it’s probably somewhere less than halfway of where I could be if I simply believed in myself.

It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.

When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to—a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves.