Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

The worst of poisons: to mistrust one's power.

If it's about work or sports or politics or women, we have no problem sharing our opinions, but if it's about our insecurities or our struggles, our fear of failure, then it's almost like we become paralyzed.

People need to trust you: that you're going to pull them out and that they will follow you when you pull them out. If they don't get that comfort, they're going to drop you. This is true of organizations. It's true of countries.

Fear is trusting in your own power.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.

I lack confidence as an actor.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

Probably the biggest challenge for me as a director was to not show how scared I was. I was surrounded by some of the most talented people in the industry, and I had to pretend I knew what I was doing.

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.