Self Doubt Quotes

“The universe took its time on you
Crafted you to offer the world
Something different from everyone else
When you doubt
How you were created
You doubt an energy greater than us both
--irreplaceable”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“I have this thing where if someone likes me, I feel like I tricked them into it. Like I can't trust it. I'll fuck it up somehow, like with Hudson.”
― Adam Silvera, What If It's Us

“Hindsight is a dangerous game”
― Shannon Messenger, Everblaze

“One can only return to the fact that even the most ordinary, good-hearted, intelligent people are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. And this comes from the realization that there are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly inane, we may actually on occasion feel insane for not believing them; and that is probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt we self-doubt, we convince ourselves into lame passivity and blind acceptance, we tell ourselves, 'Maybe I'm just missing something here.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Remember the white knight."

Though it seemed so long ago, he well remembered their conversation about the chess problem. The white knight had made a move, changed his mind, and started over.

"And do you believe this was a good move?" Mr. Benedict had asked.

"No, sir," Reynie had answered.

"Why, then, do you think he made it?"

And Reynie had replied, "Perhaps because he doubted himself.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“She had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married or succeeded in remaining engaged.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“It’s so much harder, when enemies turn into friends. And the opposite, I suppose. What didn’t I see? What did I overlook or dismiss? It always makes me reassess myself more than them.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“When one falls his shadow always embraces him, and his empty place is already someone else's.

Kushal Poddar, Poet”
― Kushal Poddar, Poet

“I am desperately seeking love, but also desperately avoiding it”
― Frances Ivy

“And your doubts can become a good quality if you school them. They must grow to be knowledgeable, they must learn to be critical. As soon as they begin to spoil something for you ask them why a thing is ugly, demand hard evidence, test them, and you will perhaps find them at a loss and short of an answer, or perhaps mutinous. But do not give in, request arguments, and act with this kind of attentiveness and consistency every single time, and the day will come when instead of being demolishers they will be among your best workers--perhaps the canniest of all those at work on the building of your life.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“...none of us can stop listening. Because what is more transfixing than the sound of people hating you?
In the darkest part of our hearts, we used to think that maybe they were right.
We don't think that anymore.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Even when i do something right, I feel like i've done something wrong.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“Spring is coming....Time for some cleaning. Remove all the self-doubt, worry, jealousy, regret, anger, guilt, or any other negative emotions that are holding you back from your happy, fulfilled life.”
― Nanette Mathews

“However far I’ve come, it’s probably somewhere less than halfway of where I could be if I simply believed in myself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 5

“Gavin couldn’t meet their eyes. “I’m not the man you think I am,” he said very quietly.
“Are you the man I’ve served these past ten years?” Ironfist asked.
“I am.”
“Then perhaps, my lord, you’re not the man you think you are.”
― Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife

“Self-doubt and lack of conscious awareness undermine a person’s quest to live a life of dutiful service. Self-assurance infuses us with poise and the strength of character to blunt our destructive impulses. Self-awareness allows us to be cognizant of the whirlwind of infinite beauty that surrounds us and reinforces us with the forte to apply our vibrant life force in an expressive motif that exposes the mistiness of our inner soul to the outer world.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster

“It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The worst enemy of our humanity is our self-doubt.”
― Lolly Daskal, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

“Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and the absurd. In the carnage of our nighttime sleep tussles, the colored liqueurs of the true, the possible, fantasy, and the mythic beliefs become intermixed. Eyelets of the commonsensical and the imaginative are incorporated, and a new realism emerges out of our distilled perception of the veridical derived from the phenomenal realm of sensory reality and the philosophic world of ideals contained in the noumenal realm. The resultant psychobiologic vision immerses us in bouts of intoxicating inspiration and artistic stimulation and leaves us rickety boned and weakened after enduring a dreaded hangover of perpetual doubt laced with vagueness and insecurity.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“perfection is a form of fear”
― Akosua Dardaine Edwards, Nyabo (Madam) — Why Are You Here?: The Truth about Living in Service, Love, and Personal Power

“Try not to be the hater. Try not to be the person who tears down someone else's work. The world needs more people who contribute their gifts and share their work and ideas. Working up the courage to do that can be tough. Support those who display that courage and vulnerability. Even if you don't enjoy their work, at least appreciate the fact that they did something. It's easy to be passive and complain. It's much harder to step into the creative arena and bring into existence something from nothing.
And nobody needs permission to create. There aren't any prerequisites to contribute to the world around you. You just need to choose to build something and follow it through, and get out of your own way (limiting beliefs / self doubt / excuses). Too many people die with great ideas inside them. Let them out!
It's all fleeting castles made of sand anyways. What do you have to lose? If you do find yourself on the receiving end of negativity, the choice is still yours to not react in anger, to accept that opinion as 1 out of 7+ billion and keep being true to yourself, as that is truly all that matters. You can either be judged because you created something or ignored because you left your greatness inside of you. Your call.”
― Adam Moskowitz

“It’s funny how you doubt yourself through & through, when the sun & the moon are parabolically on a pilgrimage, encircling the mecca of you.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Mirrors Of The Sun: Finding Reflections Of Light In The Shittiness Of Life

“The world around you may ask you to stop Dreaming Big, as it could create insecurity in their
lives. Dream Big anyway, dance to your own music and let them dance to theirs.”
― Mridula Singh, Live More: Magic Begins with You

“I do believe in the mysteries of things, about myself and the things I see. I enjoy being puzzled and arriving at my own incorrect conclusions.”
― Barney Hoskyns, Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits

“Just be yourself instead of trying to prove yourself. For if you do, the former will automatically take care of the latter.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In a period of extended waiting in life, it is all too easy to assume that something is wrong. We assume that 'something' is us.”
― Tanya Marlow, Those Who Wait: Finding God in Disappointment, Doubt and Delay

“It's a stage we all go through; it takes a certain amount of living to strike the strange balance between the two errors either of regarding ourselves as unforgivable or as not needing forgiveness.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“You're right, I don't give a single bedazzled shit what anyone else thinks of the way I look, or act, or think, but that doesn't mean I'm not aware of it. You aren't the only one who lives with self-doubt, Jolie.”
― Kerry Winfrey, Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It