Quotes with insecurity

  • My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
  • 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.

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  • Hans Selye Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • Jimmy Carter A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Albert Einstein If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Naomi Campbell Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
    Naomi Campbell
    English model (1970 - )
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  • Bobby Darin 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.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Bobby Davro Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Joyce Cary For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Ben Affleck I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Albert Einstein It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Andrew Cohen Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Ben Stein My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Boy George She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Billy Gardell The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Erich Fromm The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Salman Rushdie There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
    Telegraph Hay Festival 2012
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • John Lennon Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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