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I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. — Elia Kazan

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

A big hello from California!! And, when in doubt, self-publish, thank you !!! — Nancy Fornataro

When in doubt, doubt the doubt! — Deepak Chopra

Manifestation blossoms when we turn down or tune out doubtful noise. — T.F. Hodge

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say ... Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through. — Deb Caletti

Relax; the world's not watching that closely. It's too busy contemplating itself in the mirror. — Richelle E. Goodrich

God endorses your dissatisfaction with the world's self-concept package: Large, with a side of self-doubt and a sprinkle of guilt. — Anonymous

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage]. — John Le Carre

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through. — A.J. Darkholme

your only barriers are what you let it be — Gino Norris

I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do. — Marc Almond

because the belief system has no doubt led to success in the past, so it will fight back with many varieties of self-fulfilling prophecies. — Mary Poppendieck

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often - and in my inmost self perhaps all the time - I doubt whether I am a human being. — Franz Kafka

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies. — Carla H. Krueger

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt. — Deepak Chopra

Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses. — Rodolfo Costa

The forces of procrastination, self-doubt, worry, cultural expectations, even family and friends, can hold your life in place, like Gravity. — Matt Gersper

Naysayers are frightened by their own power. — T.F. Hodge

I AM WILLING TO LET GO OF MY SELF-DOUBT. I SURRENDER TO SELF-LOVE. — Gabrielle Bernstein

You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able. — Sanaya Roman

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

Bring Down The Walls
I will bring down the walls
that surround me today.
I will no longer be kept quiet
Meek enough to drown today ... — Muse

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing. — Clint Eastwood

Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts. — George Lucas

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt. — Charlie Cox

Self-doubt can cripple a person faster than fear ever will. — Kathryn Perez

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

Why is hard to believe than to doubt? — Lailah Gifty Akita

The combination of fear of disappointment, entitlement, and performance pressure is a recipe for hopelessness and self-doubt. — Brene Brown

In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

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

Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills — Albert Bandura

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory. — Robert Sheckley

Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds. — Marty Rubin

She didn't wallow in problems or reveal self-doubt. — Joan Biskupic

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don't invite either into your mind. — Don Roff

May you find grace to overcome self-doubt. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy. — J. Cole

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

We doubt ourselves. It's not about lowering the self-esteem. It's about increasing the self-confidence by letting the risk factor do its part — Bhavik Sarkhedi

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it. — J.M. Barrie

Writing down your successes is another method - so you can look back on them every time you
feel a hint of self-doubt coming — Jessica Bennett

Never allow opinions of others to disturb your inner tranquillity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail? — Lizz Winstead

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt. — Robert Lopez

It is better to believe than doubt. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt. — Adam Brody

Do not let the words or actions of others make you doubt yourself. — Sissy Silva

Comfort ... was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison. — Ashim Shanker

We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset. — John McCain

I've learned how to turn self-doubt into an energy source and to metabolize fear into a result-producing adrenaline. — Michael Strahan

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that — Paula Hawkins

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse. — Shannon L. Alder

Beginning to doubt the gods, there is only Atman ... and where is Atman found but in the self? But where is this self? — Hermann Hesse

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant! — Philip Roth

Is a virus self-aware? Nyet. How about oyster? I doubt it. A cat? Almost certainly. A human? Don't know about you, tovarishch, but I am. — Robert A. Heinlein

Never doubt yourself! — Lailah Gifty Akita

The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt. — Bill Bartmann

Why doubt thyself? Believe in your abilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection. — Monica Raymund

A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity. — Sandy Woodward

If anything defeated her, it would be her own mind and self-doubt. — Cat Johnson

I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt. — Joan Osborne

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in. — Judith Kelman

I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process. — Keith Fullerton Whitman

It's not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it's a lack of faith within me. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Kuni was the sort of man, Risana realized, who, rather than deceive himself, was so full of self-doubt that he could no longer see himself. — Ken Liu

Anxiety and stress derive from fear and self-doubt. — Debasish Mridha

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

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself — P.C. Cast

Carefully guard your true self. Let no mistake or error you commit create doubt in you and who you truly are. — Assegid Habtewold

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial. — Antonio Munoz Molina

It was one thing to believe in yourself, but quite another to bet. — F.D. Lee

Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self. — Wayne Dyer

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

Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt. — Anne Hathaway

We will struggle with self-doubt, distractions, addictions, unhappiness and dissatisfaction until we surrender and commit to our God-given calling. — Shannon Tanner

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

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses. — Daniel Radcliffe

There was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence. — Ayn Rand

Don't doubt yourself, that's what haters are for. — Turcois Ominek

Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius. — Robert Kiyosaki

I am the one constant obstacle to my own momentum. — Pete Vellucci Jr.

Conviction is having the mindset to never doubt your self-understanding — Gino Norris

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure. — Dean Koontz

This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for self-doubt. It is a moment of hope. — Boris Johnson

I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does. — Margot Robbie

... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain. — Bethany Brookbank

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. — William J. Clinton

I write every day whether somebody pays me or not. I write every day whether or not self-doubt is kicking my ass. It's what writers must do. — Don Roff

Something deep inside of me speaks with the voice of the psycho: For who could ever love a beast? — Zoe Cruz

Do not doubt thyself, have faith in thy soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt. — Malcolm X

don't let your self-doubt come between you and life. — Fiona Murphy

Beneath my own witty, profession facade were oceans of fear, whole rivers of self-doubt. — Caroline Knapp

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. — Mignon McLaughlin

Never doubt your existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita