When we feel insecure about something, we are unable to fully trust ourselves at that moment. The feeling when you are uncertain about your ability to do something or to measure up to a certain standard. This uncertainty has a negative effect on your self-esteem. An uncontrolled or unchecked feeling of insecurity for a long can be destructive and traumatic for the overall life of the person. So to help you deal with your insecurities, we have brought these insecurity quotes and sayings. Read on and face your insecurities head-on.
Sometimes insecurity stays localized, meaning that if someone makes a sneering joke about your looks, this may not impact your feelings about your intelligence. However, often insecurity has an overall negative effect on your self-esteem, making you feel worthless altogether. There are many reasons because of which insecurities may rise in our heart and mind. Lack of approval is the most common one. But why do you need approval from anyone? Don’t seek approval from others for yourself. Learn to love yourself enough so that your own approval seems enough for you.
Insecurity is all around, everyone feels insecure about various situations so you are not alone in this. Let us all deal with our insecurities with these insecurity quotes and sayings collection that will highlight the impact of insecurity in our life and also boost your self-esteem.
Insecurity Quotes and Sayings
Here are the best quotes and sayings about insecurity to help inspire you to work through it.
- “Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “I saw now that a part of me never felt good enough for anyone so I tried to be someone I wasn’t.” – Stefanie Sybens
- “If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn’t envy the greatness in others.” – Suzy Kassem
- “Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.” – Joan Frances Casey
- “If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity, and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty, and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!” – Israelmore Ayivor
- “A woman will always be insecure if she attaches her identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention she gets.” – Anupama Garg
- “The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.” – Shannon Alder
- “I live in a shell, so I can’t blame people when they don’t want to crack me. But people like you are the reason I left the nest.” – Maria Elena
- “He who is jealous is better off not dating someone who is bisexual.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “This is not a “guilty pleasure” of mine, simply because I don’t believe in “guilty” pleasures. Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.” – James Kakalios
- “I act like shit don’t phase me inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive” – Eminem
- “Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly loved. Don’t bundle someone into an uncomfortable cage just because you want to ensure their safety in your life. The bird knows where it belongs, and will never fly to a wrong nest.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
- “Being Overconfident often exists when one tries to cover up one’s insecurities without facing them.” – Edmond Mbiaka
- “It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Don’t be like an insecure person who only likes to be in a circle where he is the most successful one. Perhaps so that everyone in that circle would respect him. You should always position yourself in a circle that challenges you very often to push harder and do better” – Edmond Mbiaka
- “It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.” – Criss Jami
- “Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.”
- “Relationships fail when people take their own insecurities and project them as their partner’s flaws.” – Steve Maraboli
- “A person who is confident and capable will never feel insecure.” – Abhishek Ratna
- “They’ll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn’t forget and you mustn’t be ashamed.” – Stephanie Dray
- “A person’s greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.” – Kilroy J. Oldster
- “Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to “man up” is to empower women.” – Steve Maraboli
- “I have insecurities of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.” – Adele
- “Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna — or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.” – Barbara Walters
- “Comparison is the thief of joy.” -Theodore Roosevelt
Insecurity Quotes For Relationships
- “I’m so loud as if I know what I’m on about, but deep inside, I’m so insecure. Just a little girl.” – Katie Price
- “If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.” – Abiola Abrams
- “I thought I screwed everything up,” I say.
He smiles. “You’re only one person. In the whole universe. You can’t screw everything up.” – Caela Carter - “Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.” – Sue Grafton
- “Normally, I am a little insecure about myself without a shirt on, as my days of being attractive are now behind me.” – Rick Moody
- “While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “No INSECURITY makes us sociopathic; too much makes us paranoid, but a little keeps us humble and introspective-a good thing…” – J.R. Wirth
- “People that don’t know what they are worth will always see their capture’s wings, but never their tail.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgment. If building trust is the ultimate goal – there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.” – T.F. Hodge
- “The selfish are seldom secure.” – Wayne Gerard Trotman
- “Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Insecurity’s best cover is perfectionism. That’s where it becomes an art form.” – Beth Moore
- “A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- “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
- “Insecure people seek answers in all the wrong places.” – Robert Black
- “A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” – Steven Furtick
- “Men are not our problem; it’s what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we’re valuable.” – Beth Moore
- “Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don’t even know.” – Drake
- “Insecurity prevents young artists from ‘flying’ and older artists from being ‘down to earth.’ Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.” -Igor Babailov
- “I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore” – John Lennon
- “How could such a beautiful man be insecure?” – R.K. Lilley
- “Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity.” – John Lennon
- “There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” -Oscar Wilde
- “I don’t let anyone’s insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that’s all that matters to me.” – Demi Lovato
- “Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.” – Habeeb Akande
- “If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.” – Bryant McGill
- “When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.” – Laz Alonso
- “Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.” – Harold W. Dodds
- “Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue… and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem, and loneliness.” – Naomi Campbell
- “Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor’s trade.” -Miranda Richardson
- “The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.” – Erich Fromm
- “Insecurity is the enemy of knowledge.” – Stewart Stafford
- “Every sane adult is insecure about at least one thing on or about them.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.” – John Allen Paulos
- “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
- “I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.” – Clint Eastwood
- “Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.” – Graham Greene
- “Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.” – Bryant McGill
- “Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!” – C. JoyBell C.
- “Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks.” -Shannon L. Alder
- “People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.” – Criss Jami
- “He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.” – Alan Hollinghurst
- “The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned.” – Becca Fitzpatrick
- “Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.” – Bernard Baruch
Conclusion
The day you will stop depending on others to make you feel worthy, that day will mark the end of all your insecurities. No one is as important as you in this world for you. So only listen to yourself and learn to take criticism positively.
Also read:
Join us on Instagram
4 Comments