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Quotes about Self-doubt

You need to trust yourself, especially on a first draft, where amid the anxiety and self-doubt, there should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
- Anne Lamott
Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
- John Eldredge
I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Our deepest fears is not that we are inadequate, . . .
- Marianne Williamson
We're not being stopped by something on the outside, but by something on the inside.
- Marianne Williamson
The fears that the few good things that make you happy are slipping through your fingers, and the frustrations that the bad things you hate about yourself or your situation can't be changed—these fears and these frustrations are what Christmas came to destroy.
- John Piper
Only the gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage. Destroy self-exaltation and increase confidence. Destroy the pushiness of self-assertion and deliver from the paralysis of self-doubt.
- John Piper
I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'
- Dolly Parton
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
- Anne Lamott
I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
- Jonah Hill
Reflection makes men cowards.
- William Hazlitt
It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant…
- LM Montgomery