Quotes about Insecurity

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

We are never free until we have no need to impress other people.

When I first got an agent, they gave me some advice--lose weight.

You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas, which says to the painter, 'You can't do a thing'.

So I have a horror of success.

No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

If we live for people's approval, we will die by their rejection

Jealousy is a tough thing to carry because it causes us to compare and compete. It silences us from celebrating and affirming. When we live in families that compare and compete, but can't celebrate and affirm, we live at war.

The Enemy is great at sowing seeds of doubt, at working to undermine your confidence about what God says is true about you.

the footprints of two of my own Goliaths: control and approval.

It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we got taller or thinner or prettier...and we still want it... but we aren't going to get it from other people until we can get it from ourselves.