Insecurity Quotes

The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.

You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.

Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.

I've had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more.

You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly ... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive.

Your insecurities are what makes you different and who you are. If we all were the same, it'd be boring.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

We all have insecurities but you have to know you’re beautiful.

I believe in the eternal security of the believer and in the insecurity of the make-believer.

A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually.

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

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

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.