165 Best Self Doubt Quotes and Sayings

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

@Sylvia Plath

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“Believe in yourself, your abilities, and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.”

@Roy Bennett

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“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

@Sylvia Plath

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“…wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen.”

@David Whyte

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“We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate… Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.”

@Christopher Reeve

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“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”

@W.H. Auden

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“If you don’t have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven’t dreamed big enough.”

@Joe Vitale

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“I could keep going forever, listing all my flaws in order from the most innocuous to the least. I am afraid of spiders… I fall in love too easily… I have fierce spells of self-doubt.”

@Nina LaCour

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“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”

@Robert Hughes

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“When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.”

@Shannon L. Alder

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“The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.”

@Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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“You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self-doubt.”

@Oprah Winfrey

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“Whenever you’re making a movie, especially when you’re writing, you always have self-doubts.”

@George Lucas

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“If you spend enough time with someone who doubts you, you can’t help but believe them.”

@J.S.B. Morse

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“Don’t regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.”

@Deepak Chopra

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“In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act.”

@Caroline Caldwell

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“Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.”

@Alanis Morissette

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“There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.”

@Eric Hoffer

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“I don’t believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.”

@Tennessee Williams

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“Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.”

@Rodolfo Costa

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“The worst thing about that kind of prejudice… is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.”

@Nina Simone

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“Self-doubts are like weeds; if you don’t deal with them right away, they multiply. And before you know it, your garden looks like a jungle in Vietnam.”

@Emma Chase

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“Self-doubt kills talent.”

@Edie McClurg

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“There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.”

@A.J. Darkholme

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“I’m just funnier when I’m drunk. Not falling-down drunk, just drunk enough to lose the self-doubt.”

@Doug Stanhope

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“There is no doubt a new dress is a help under all circumstances.”

@Noel Streatfeild

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“A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity.”

@Sandy Woodward

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“Give someone a book, they’ll read for a day. Teach someone how to write a book, they’ll experience a lifetime of paralyzing self doubt.”

@Lauren DeStefano

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“Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear”

@Robin Sharma

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“For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.”

@Sylvia Plath

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“If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you’ll feel more exhausted than if you’d created for hours.”

@Eric Maisel

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“How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?”

@Simone Weil

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“I’m not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.”

@Keith Fullerton Whitman

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“The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.”

@Colette

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“I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.”

@Geri Halliwell

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“Clear communication between selves – the surface self and the deep self – is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.”

@Stephen King

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“I’m often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.”

@Marc Almond

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“The first draft is your “vomit onto the keyboard” draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts.”

@Sean Platt

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“I’ve questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.”

@Taylor Swift

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“Spare me the self-righteous indignation. I highly doubt your motives are selfless.”

@Jaye Wells

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“However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt – if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it – move beyond self-doubt.”

@Dwight Yoakam

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“Such is the fate, in some form or other, of all those who unbalance the master’s sense of self, poke holes in his vanity, or make him doubt his pre-eminence.”

@Robert Greene

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“Listen to any self doubt for anything that needs to be addressed, address it, and keep rocking!”

@David Schlussel

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“Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear — and doubt.”

@H. A. Dorfman

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“I’m full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.”

@John Banville

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“Sometimes therapy takes years and years, and sometimes it can happen in one miraculous instant, a lifetime of doubt and self-hatred healed in a moment of astounding love.”

@Mia Sheridan

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“Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills”

@Albert Bandura

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“If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don’t they will find an excuse.”

@Shannon L. Alder

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“I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.”

@J. Cole

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“The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.”

@Colette

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“I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.”

@Elia Kazan

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“Self-doubt is healthy! Self-doubt keeps me in check!”

@Anna Kendrick

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“The self doubt can be a fantastic opportunity to self-reflect and see where you can grow and be stronger.”

@Kathryn Budig

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“Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

@Laurell K. Hamilton

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“Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.”

@Wayne Dyer

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“Obsessing over a boy is like throwing precious time into the garbage, and all I have to show for it is chewed-off fingernails, self-doubt, and emotional distress.”

@Katie Kacvinsky

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“For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.”

@Charley Pride

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“Self-inflation and conceit are generally the external signs of inner emptiness and self-doubt; a show of pride is one of the most common covers for anxiety.”

@Rollo May

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“Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man’s hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.”

@John Galt

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“Whomever you truly are… honor that person. No dream was ever realized by disappearing into the shadows of self-deceit and doubt.”

@Jaeda DeWalt

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“A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.”

@Robert Sheckley

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“Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.”

@Hal Higdon

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“Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.”

@Adam Brody

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“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” Douglas MacArthur”

@Terri Marie

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“It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.”

@Eric Hoffer

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“I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don’t believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.”

@Douglas Adams

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“I’ve always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it’s like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling, especially in the first hundred pages of the book.”

@Dean Koontz

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“Self-doubt can cripple a person faster than fear ever will.”

@Kathryn Perez

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“Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.”

@Aimee Mullins

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“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

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“Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.”

@Khalil Gibran

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“Most people saw her as supremely confident and self assured but beneath that were the doubts.”

@Lauren Dane

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“Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.”

@Brian Tracy

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“Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.”

@Ziad K. Abdelnour

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“Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver.”

@Sri Chinmoy

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“Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.”

@A.J. Darkholme

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“I believe everyday your life speaks to you – through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear, and self-doubt.”

@Oprah Winfrey

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“Either you must control your thoughts or the outside forces will control them and be warned that the outside forces usually consist of fears, worries, and doubts.”

@Maddy Malhotra

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“Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.”

@Mason Cooley

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“Because suffering is the bible she was sworn in on. Because self-doubt was the ferry she took to get here and yes, it did get her here, but she never knew she could swim.”

@Sierra Demulder

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“As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you’re on permanent trial.”

@Antonio Munoz Molina

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“Salvation comes through repetition. This I can do because I have done it before—it’s half prayer, half truth, a whisper in a hurricane of self-doubt.”

@Kevin Hazzard

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“At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.”

@William Ivey Long

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“Perfectionism makes essential projects hard to start, self-doubt makes them hard to finish, and trying to do too much, too fast, makes it hard to sustain momentum.”

@Greg McKeown

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“When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.”

@Jennifer Lee

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“Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you’ll find something that is.”

@A.J. Darkholme

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“Have faith in your skills, negative thoughts kill. Self-doubt will kill your dreams before others do. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

@Suzy Kassem

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“Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.”

@Steve Backley

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“There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.”

@Al Pacino

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“It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.”

@Janis Birkeland

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“It’s just so fragile. The growing sense of ‘Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again’ All those questions of self-doubt, they do creep in.”

@Jacqueline McKenzie

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“It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.”

@Craig D. Lounsbrough

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“I feel self-doubt whether I’m doing something hard or easy.”

@Sigourney Weaver

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“Your thought patterns can be a wellspring of abundance to live life on your terms. But negative talk and self-doubt are a drain on your inner resources.”

@Keisha Blair

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“What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.”

@Daniel Radcliffe

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“We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals.”

@Kelly McGonigal

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“Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.”

@David Brock

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“An important tool against self-doubt is just to ignore it. Forge ahead anyway. Just keep going, keep going, keep going.”

@Lauren Graham

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“Clear communication between selves – the surface self and the deep self – is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.”

@Stephen King

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“But I also knew if I could somehow replace my doubt with hope, my fear with courage, and my self-pity with a sense of pride, then I just might be able to do this.”

@Bear Grylls

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“For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.”

@Sylvia Plath

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“If you doubt, you fall, you fail, you die. Do not doubt.”

@Shaun Hick

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“As far as I can tell, most actors’ main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.”

@Daniel Radcliffe

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“Fuck this self-doubt bullshit.”

@Rob Colton

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“Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

@Laurell K. Hamilton

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“Dear Young Black Males, Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are. Always believe in yourself, even if nobody else does. Strive to be self-motivated!”

@Stephanie Lahart

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“The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self-doubt and your laziness. It is your self-doubt and your laziness that defines and limits who you are.”

@Robert Kiyosaki

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“It is not through fighting the opposition that will win you dignity. It is when you fight the fear in yourself that asks you why you don’t feel you have it, regardless if you win or lose.”

@Shannon L. Alder

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“I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.”

@Hugh Laurie

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“The excitement of creating is followed by desperate self-doubt. Courage and inspiration compete with discouragement and despair.”

@Diana Pavlac Glyer

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“It’s heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.”

@William J. Clinton

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“I’ve questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.”

@Taylor Swift

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“Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.”

@Andrew Cohen

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“Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.”

@Mariella Frostrup

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“Like most other creatives, I struggle with self-sabotage, self-doubt, and feeling like an imposter more often than not. I struggle with expressing myself because it does sometimes feel easier or safer not to.”

@Jeff Jarvis

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“Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubts,’ they go, ‘Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.'”

@Al Franken

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“I can’t think of anyone I admire who isn’t fuelled by self-doubt. It’s an essential ingredient. It’s the grit in the oyster.”

@Richard Eyre

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