Insecure People Quotes:

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

- Persis Khambatta

topic: Fear, Insecure, People, Creative People, 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

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

- Alyssa Milano

topic: Insecure, Careers, People, Insecure People

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

- Joyce Meyer

source: Joyce Meyer (2016). “Overload: How to Unplug, Unwind and Free Yourself from the Pressure of Stress”, p.114, Hachette UK

topic: Motivational, Insecure, Epidemics, Society Today, Insecure People

Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.

- Lynn Jennings

topic: Running, Athlete, Insecure, Insecure People

Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

- Sue Grafton

topic: Insecure, People, Special, Insecure People

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

Models are some of the most insecure people I've ever met. They're constantly being told that they're not good enough. You've really got to practice loving yourself.

- Miranda Kerr

source: "Miranda Kerr: 'Models Are Some of The Most Insecure People I've Met'". Interview with Katie Connor, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 1, 2013.

topic: Insecure, Loving Yourself, Practice, Insecure People

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Leadership, Wisdom, Spring, Insecure People, Arab Spring

I think it comes down to the type of personality that the performing arts seem to attract. And that's outgoing, very sensitive - sometimes incredibly insecure - people, that for some reason need a lot of validation. They have a lot that they have to get out, and they choose one of the hardest professions in the world in which to exist, being as sensitive as you need to be.

- Audra McDonald

topic: Insecure People, Performing Arts, Outgoing

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

In the first place, I'm pretty thorough about whom I choose. I instinctively look for the kind of actor who is going to be trusting. There are all kinds of insecure people out there called actors.

- Mike Leigh

source: Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

topic: Insecure, People, Looks, Insecure People

Nearly 40% of all food in this country is wasted, and there are over 49 million food-insecure people in the United States. Clearly we have an enormous opportunity if we can find a way to retrieve the imperfect food and to feed the hungry.

- Dana Cowin

source: Source: www.cnn.com

topic: Country, Insecure, Opportunity, Insecure People

Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place.

- Florence King

topic: Jealous, Insecure, Self, Insecure People, Groupie

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

- Susie Orbach

source: "'Bodies are a big business'". Interview with Julia Korbik, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. December 29, 2014.

topic: Insecure, Ideas, People, Insecure People, Healthy Body

Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.

- Michael Jackson

topic: Beer, Insecure, People, Insecure People, Craft Beer

Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Insecure, Reality, People, Insecure People, Juvenile