Insecurity And Fear Quotes:

I function better in an atmosphere of inner insecurity and fear.

- Timothy Miller

source: Source: screenrant.com

topic: Insecurity, Atmosphere, Insecurity And Fear

It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

- Vin Diesel

source: "Vin Diesel: I Want To Be A Good Dad". "Parade" Interview, parade.com. August 25, 2008.

topic: Dream, Insecurity, Way, Insecurity And Fear, Diesel

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

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

- Erich Fromm

topic: Business, Inner Peace, Insecurity, Insecurity And Fear, Being Insecure

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

- Tom Hooper

source: "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

topic: Block, Thinking, Self, Insecurity And Fear

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.129, Criss Jami

topic: Judgement, Insecurity, Guilt, Insecurity And Fear

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

- Ben Stein

topic: Successful, People, Parent, Insecurity And Fear

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

topic: Pain, Fear, Taken, Insecurity And Fear, Avoiding Pain

Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

topic: Media, Insecurity, Climate, Insecurity And Fear, Western Media

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

- John Lennon

topic: Insecurity, Express Yourself, Insecurity And Fear

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Fear, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Insecure, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself, Inspirational Beauty, Sensitive Person

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

topic: Confidence, Fear, Famous Motivational, Inaugural Speech, Child Of God

Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.

- Stacy London

source: "Stacy London Looks Back on Her Style". Interview with Julie Miller, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.

topic: Believe, Insecurity, Trying, Just Believe In Yourself, Insecurity And Fear

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

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Play, Safety, Insecurity, Playing It Safe, Insecurity And Fear

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Insecurity And Fear, Human Mind

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

- Harold W. Dodds

topic: Insecurity, Spurs, Force, Insecurity And Fear

Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don't even know.

- Drake

topic: Hate, People, Insecurity, Jealousy And Insecurity, Ugly Things

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

- Alan Watts

topic: Purple, Feelings, Insecurity, Insecurity And Fear, Beets

In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.

- Radhanath Swami

topic: Believe, Two, Ego, Insecurity And Fear

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

- Tariq Ramadan

source: "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

topic: Self Confidence, Insecurity, Viruses, Lack Of Self Confidence, Insecurity And Fear

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

- Andrew Cohen

topic: Men, Ideas, Insecurity, Insecurity And Fear

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

- Lauryn Hill

topic: Insecurity, Black, Western Culture, Insecurity And Fear, Demonic

It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: True Identity, Insecurity, Want, Insecurity And Fear

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

- Jann Wenner

source: "Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush To Ipad Is 'Sheer Insanity And Insecurity And Fear'". Interview with Nat Ives, adage.com. May 30, 2011.

topic: Moving, Ipads, Insanity, Insecurity And Fear

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

- Philip Seymour Hoffman

topic: Insecurity, Doe, Over It, Insecurity And Fear

Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.

- Herbert Marcuse

topic: Business, Blessing, Civilization, Greatest Achievement, Insecurity And Fear

It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity, and fear. They also have something called frosting. It seems to represent how they spend almost all the seconds of their existence in doing superficial, artificial, temporary, pleasant-tasting, nice appearing projects and spend very few actual seconds of their lives developing their eternal beingness.

- Marlo Morgan

topic: Nice, Insecurity, Spices, Insecurity And Fear