Best Self-doubt Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.”

Ifs Self Moving Ability Doubt Acquire Self-doubt

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'”

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Author:Al Franken

“I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.”

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Author:Joe Mantello

“Self-doubt kills talent.”

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Author:Edie McClurg

“At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.”

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Author:William Ivey Long

“I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole."”

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Author:Lizz Winstead

“If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.”

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her.”

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Author:Will Smith

“Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.”

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Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.”

Writing Self Bigs Deals Doubt Impossible Editing Big Deal Self-doubt

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.”

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Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it.”

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Author:Lauren Mackler

“Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.”

“Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we ought to do. Other people's assertions cannot silence the howling dirge within us. It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Rejoice in the works of your hands, be happy and thankful that you are valuable, that what you say and do insn't taken for a ride, that you have rejected the notion of self-doubt and fear, that God isn't blind towards propagating your positive influence, and finally that you'll leave a meritorious legacy.”

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Author:Michael Bassey

“By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?”

Ifs Self Asks Doubt Failing Confidence Lifetime Folks Ask Me What If Crucial Self-doubt Flukes

Book:Lizz Free or Die: Essays

Source: Lizz Free or Die: Essays

“Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me.”

Feels I Can Self Doubt Source Draws Self-doubt

Book:I, Fellini

Source: I, Fellini

“Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.”

People Believe Real Self Artist Doubt Self-doubt Real Artists

Book:The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

“You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.”

Knows Way Self Spirit Doubt Stage Wall Shadow Self-doubt Stages Of Life Waltz

Book:What I Know For Sure

Source: What I Know For Sure

“I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal, and desire for the soul's mystical fire. Self-satisfaction because of some material accomplishment will never be for me. The truly great are those who quest for better spiritual selves.”

Source: The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

“Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.”

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Author:Judith Kelman

“As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.”

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Author:Antonio Munoz Molina

“The only thing that keeps us going back to one another is that we're all filled with such enormous self-doubt. We have doubts about our ability to be alone, to self-actualize.”

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Author:Stephen Colbert

“It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.”

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Author:Claire Danes

“I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.”

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Author:Spike Jonze

“I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.”

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Author:Charlie Cox

“Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.”

“Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.”

Thinking I Can Self Body Can Do Accepting Doubt Self-doubt

Author:Geri Halliwell

“Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'”

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Author:Imogen Heap

“Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.”

Doe Ends Self Courage Doubt Self-doubt

Author:Mason Cooley

“The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.”

Firsts Persons Self Young Used Learning Growing Youth Smarter Evident Indication Self-doubt

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.”

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Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

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

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“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.”

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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

“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.'”

“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.”

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Author:Tony Abbott

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

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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.”

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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.”

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Author:Joe Vitale

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

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Author:John le Carre

“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

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