Quotes about Insecurity

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

Everyone creates what he fears.

Comparison may be a natural thing everybody does, but people in leadership and in helping ministries need to avoid it at all costs because it feeds either insecurity or pride, not humility and trust in God.

Attachment to money will always create insecurity no matter how much money you have in the bank.

The ego wants to acquire things out of insecurity, out of a sense of lack. Remind yourself that everything comes and goes except the soul. It's from the soul that a person gains a sense of inner fulfillment. The soul lacks nothing and therefore has no anxiety about the outside world: gain is not a need, loss is not a threat.

No external experience will support us, because the flux of events is inescapable. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.

Instead of measuring my success and value by my own standards, I was measuring it by how others perceived me.

When I asked her what was the matter? answered, she didn't know; but she felt so afraid of dying!

Now all is dashed wrong; by the fool's craving to hear evil of self, that haunts some people like a demon!

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture…Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.