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“Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.”

“I believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.”

People Believe Self Pain Speak I Believe Doubt Awareness Everyday Self-doubt

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.”

Ifs Self Difficult Results Attitude Doubt Too Much Doors Easier Communicate Compassionate Suspicion Self Centered Narcissistic Wise Man Once Said Self Absorbed Egocentric Social Interaction

Author:Dalai Lama

“When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.”

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Author:Miriam Schapiro

“Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.”

People World Feels Self Seems Hurt Doubt Fate Happened Protect Harder Victim Blame Deny Trauma Recovery Assault Self-doubt Precaution Inspectors

Author:Anna C Salter

“Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.”

Men Self Facts Feelings Form Deals Secret Existence Doubt Dread Inability Unworthy Inferiority Self-doubt

Author:John Galt

“They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an inspired body of men. It has been said that God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into the wilderness ... Who can fail to see it in the hand of Destiny? Who can doubt that it has been guided by a Divine Providence?”

“I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'”

“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.”

Knows May Self Wisdom Doubt Fool Ought Prove Obstacles Heroic Heroism Truest Greatest Obstacles

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance, our choice of associates, our behavior. Language communicates so much more than ideas; it reveals our intelligence, our knowledge of a topic, our creativity, our ability to think, our self-confidence, et cetera.”

Thinking Ideas Self Choices Language Leadership Ability Creativity Doubt Speech Behavior Communicate Appearance Self Confidence No Doubt Judged Associates Topics Our Choices

Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Self Bigs Doubt Rate Avoided Assessment Self-doubt Self Assessment Big Heads

Author:Tony Abbott

“Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.”

Writing Self Doubt Self-doubt

Author:George Lucas

“Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills”

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Author:Albert Bandura

“People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts”

“I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.”

Thinking Wells Long Self Young Girl Wish Sides Known Doubt Effects Late Twenties Insecurity Lasting Self-doubt Side Effects Long Lasting Tweens Late Twenties

Author:Deborah Reber

“If you don't have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven't dreamed big enough.”

Ifs Inspirational Self Enough Dream Bigs Inspiration Doubt Havens Pursue Self-doubt Doubt And Fear

Author:Joe Vitale

“Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.”

Wells Self Choices Doubt Exercise Determination Shame Spite Restraint Infancy Unbroken Self Restraint Free Choice

Book:Insight and Responsibility

Source: Insight and Responsibility

“The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’”

People Trying Children Self Use Feelings Doubt Independent Cures Appetite Excess Hopelessness

Author:Adam Phillips

“Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition- will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is what all heroes (including you) are here to do.”

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Author:Martha Beck

“I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.”

Made Self Might Doubt Consequence Mathematics Evident Propositions

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”

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Author:Louisa May Alcott

“Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.”

Ifs Mean Self Doubt Sacrifice Likes Pretense Self Sacrifice Idealist Abomination

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].”

World May Real Self Levels Moral Novel Doubt Real World Introducing Espionage Self-doubt

Author:John le Carre

“I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in fiction creative writing workshops against using the self at all, and I think I try to encourage students to write the self, but to connect the self to something larger, which is to be this thinking, seeing, searching, eternally curious person, and that writing can come out of investigating and trying to understand confusion, and doubts, and obsessions.”

“I see that women still have self-doubt, and at the same time I feel like I see all these fantastic young women, and they all have ambition and are so focused on their futures. I don't think that's an anomaly anymore.”

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Author:Mary Harron

“I'm trying to educate people about things that I believe are right, and some of the things that I believe are right might not be right, so I live in constant self-doubt. I think that creates a kind of search that you have to have, and it prevents you from doing a lot of stuff that you would normally do.”

People Thinking Trying Believe Kind Self Might I Believe Stuff Doubt Constant Educate Self-doubt

Author:James McBride

“When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.”

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Author:Jennifer Lee

“You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.”

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Author:Saul Bass

“I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known.... The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into useful activity instead of being paralyzed by it - is that by the time you reach the end of a novel, you know precisely why you made every decision in the narrative, the multiple purposes of every metaphor and image.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.”

Self Decision Doubt Originals

Book:The Power of Intention

Source: The Power of Intention

“When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement”

Knows Way Self Done Feelings Jobs Doubt Achievement Instruments Constant Receiving Communion Communion With God

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.”

Mean Self Love Is Doubt Sacrifice Impulse No Doubt Gratification True Love Is Thoughtfulness Self Gratification

Book:Speech in Season

Source: Speech in Season

“I learned that I was able to focus. I've always thought of myself as somebody who is like either it's there or it isn't there. I really worked at this, and I focused, and I was able to replace self-doubt with focus. That was something new for me to say self-doubt is there, but it does not need to be in the front row. You can ask it to take a back seat and replace that front row seat with focus.”

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Author:Jenny Slate

“Listen to any self doubt for anything that needs to be addressed, address it, and keep rocking!”

Needs Self Doubt Addresses Self-doubt

Author:David Schlussel

“It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.”

Self Doubt Talent Poison Self-doubt

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear”

Self Enemy Doubt Our Lives Achieve Greatness Extraordinary Sabotage Self-doubt Extraordinary Things

Author:Robin Sharma

“Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.”

“Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.”

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Author:Suzy Kassem

“The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the world, that British patriotism was rediscovered in those spring days. It was never really lost. But it would be no bad thing if the feeling that swept the country then were to continue to inspire us. For if there was any doubt about the determination of the British people it was removed by the men and women who, a few months ago, brought a renewed sense of pride and self-respect to our country.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.”

Self Doubt Welcome Insecurity Self-doubt

Author:Adam Brody

“As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.”

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Author:Garson Kanin

“I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there's something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas doesn't mean that you have generally low self-esteem. And you have the power to get yourself out of feeling that way.”

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Author:Amy Cuddy

“The whole body-mind thing comes into play, when you are feeling that self-doubt and your body is not going to help you if you're not paying attention. Your body's going to go with the self-doubt and make you feel worse, so by making the adjustments - pulling your shoulders back, standing up straight, walking in a more sort of expansive way - all sorts of little things will help pull you out of that self-doubt.”

Ifs Way Feels Mind Littles Self Play Whole Helping Feelings Body Attention Doubt Walking Standing Your Body Shoulders Pay Attention Little Things Pulling Adjustment Self-doubt

Author:Amy Cuddy

“We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset.”

Should Self Doubt Assets Credibility Strategic Exhibits Self-doubt

Author:John McCain

“When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I wrote crumbled up, and then it became a self-destructive thing - when you begin to doubt yourself, when doubt turns into - it's sort of like impotence. Once impotent, you're forever impotent. Because you're always worried about being impotent.”

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Author:Rod Serling

“I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.”

Self Doubt Self-doubt

Author:Marc Almond

“I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.”

Self Audience Doubt Limits Expectations Transformation Halloween Dressings Presentation Dressing Up

Author:Rachel Zucker

“It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?"”

Writing Self Easy Doubt Caught Caught Up Easy To Get Self-doubt

Author:Michael Cera

“I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.”

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Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman

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