Lack of Confidence Quotes

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

I can't say with certitude.

I'm not brave. Far from it.

If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.

Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.

I very rarely made any move to direct anything. I didn't have any faith in myself.

There's definitely a lack of self-belief in many players, which is the only complaint I have about men's tennis.

In school, I didn't speak up often in class. I was never the person to yell out an answer. If I knew it, I might whisper it to my buddy and let him answer. I kept quiet.

No one in China has a solid belief or trust in society.

I don't think anyone would want to come to my gallery show.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

I was shy at school.

Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them.

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

Do not feel certain of anything.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

I'd be on stage in Ireland performing for thousands of people and just not believing in what I'm doing at all. And it hurt, it hurt badly. I knew every day that I couldn't continue this way.

I'm very shy in a crowd.

I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in all honesty.

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

I can't act!

We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."