Quotes about Insecurity

Envy is the offspring of pride,

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.

I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

Above all, I see the preaching ministry as a dual process. On the one hand I must attempt to change the soul of individuals so that their societies may be changed. On the other I must attempt to change the societies so that the individual soul will have a change. Therefore, I must be concerned about unemployment, slums, and economic insecurity. I am a profound advocate of the social gospel.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

A frigid woman is never jealous, you simply haven't caught up yet on ordinary human emotions.

Henry was living in a terrible insecurity. To that extent his plight was worse than mine. I had the security of possessing nothing.

I had no memory at all of Sarah and I was completely free from anxiety, jealousy, insecurity, hate: my mind was a blank sheet on which somebody had just been on the point of writing a message of happiness. I felt sure that when my memory came back, the writing would continue and that I should be happy.