self-doubt

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0fdf9e6	Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.	doubt resolve self-doubt	William Shakespeare
8123319	The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.	self-confidence self-doubt	Sylvia Plath
da07357	Don't let others tell you what you can't do. Don't let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.	achievement believe believe-in-yourself inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking self-doubt vision	Roy T. Bennett
a378eef	Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself	abilities ability believe believe-in-yourself confidence dream dreams empowerment hope inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes limitations limits living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking potential self-doubt spiritual-growth spirituality	Roy T. Bennett
73d7a53	Never let fear hold you captive	fear inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking self-doubt	Roy T. Bennett
6d91c62	Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.	doubts self-doubt writing	William Goldman
b0aab6a	I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.	self-doubt	George Eliot
2d2bce0	The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.	others self-doubt uncertainty value	Alain de Botton
d37df44	"I am drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness - and even I am not strong enough to deny the routine, the rote, to simplify. No, I go plodding on, afraid that the blank hell in back of my eyes will break through, spewing forth like a dark pestilence; afraid that the disease which eats away the pith of my body with merciless impersonality will break forth in obvious sores and warts, screaming "Traitor, sinner, imposter."	negativism sadness self-doubt	Sylvia Plath
e0a106e	A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!	infant insecurity jewish manhood self-doubt	Philip Roth
53b5e82	Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?	irony karl-glogauer self-doubt	Michael Moorcock
13cfd6b	"I'm not this unusual," she said. "It's just my hair." She looked at Bobby and she looked at me, with an expression at once disdainful and imploring. She was forty, pregnant, and in love with two men at once. I think what she could not abide was the zaniness of her life. Like many of us, she had grown up expecting romance to bestow dignity and direction. "Be brave," I told her. Bobby and I stood before her, confused and homeless and lacking a plan, beset by an aching but chaotic love that refused to focus in the conventional way. Traffic roared behind us. A truck honked its hydraulic horn, a monstrous, oceanic sound. Clare shook her head, not in denial but in exasperation. Because she could think of nothing else to do, she began walking again, more slowly, toward the row of trees."	glbtq love pregnancy pregnant-woman romance self-doubt threesome triangle	Michael Cunningham
4bab279	When our commitment is wavering, the best way to stay on track is to consider the progress we've already made. As we recognize what we've invested and attained, it seems like a waste to give up, and our confidence and commitment surge.	grit motivation perseverance self-doubt	Adam M. Grant
036e2f0	She had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married or succeeded in remaining engaged.	futility howards-end insecure out-of-place self-doubt society	E.M. Forster
ece8362	It's a stage we all go through; it takes a certain amount of living to strike the strange balance between the two errors either of regarding ourselves as unforgivable or as not needing forgiveness.	life living self-doubt	Madeleine L'Engle

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

8123319

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

self-confidence self-doubt

Sylvia Plath

da07357

Don't let others tell you what you can't do. Don't let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.

achievement believe believe-in-yourself inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking self-doubt vision

Roy T. Bennett

a378eef

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself

abilities ability believe believe-in-yourself confidence dream dreams empowerment hope inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes limitations limits living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking potential self-doubt spiritual-growth spirituality

Roy T. Bennett

73d7a53

Never let fear hold you captive

fear inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking self-doubt

Roy T. Bennett

6d91c62

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.

doubts self-doubt writing

William Goldman

b0aab6a

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

self-doubt

George Eliot

2d2bce0

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

others self-doubt uncertainty value

Alain de Botton

d37df44

"I am drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness - and even I am not strong enough to deny the routine, the rote, to simplify. No, I go plodding on, afraid that the blank hell in back of my eyes will break through, spewing forth like a dark pestilence; afraid that the disease which eats away the pith of my body with merciless impersonality will break forth in obvious sores and warts, screaming "Traitor, sinner, imposter."

negativism sadness self-doubt

Sylvia Plath

e0a106e

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

infant insecurity jewish manhood self-doubt

Philip Roth

53b5e82

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

irony karl-glogauer self-doubt

Michael Moorcock

13cfd6b

"I'm not this unusual," she said. "It's just my hair." She looked at Bobby and she looked at me, with an expression at once disdainful and imploring. She was forty, pregnant, and in love with two men at once. I think what she could not abide was the zaniness of her life. Like many of us, she had grown up expecting romance to bestow dignity and direction. "Be brave," I told her. Bobby and I stood before her, confused and homeless and lacking a plan, beset by an aching but chaotic love that refused to focus in the conventional way. Traffic roared behind us. A truck honked its hydraulic horn, a monstrous, oceanic sound. Clare shook her head, not in denial but in exasperation. Because she could think of nothing else to do, she began walking again, more slowly, toward the row of trees."

glbtq love pregnancy pregnant-woman romance self-doubt threesome triangle

Michael Cunningham

4bab279

When our commitment is wavering, the best way to stay on track is to consider the progress we've already made. As we recognize what we've invested and attained, it seems like a waste to give up, and our confidence and commitment surge.

grit motivation perseverance self-doubt

Adam M. Grant

036e2f0

She had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married or succeeded in remaining engaged.

futility howards-end insecure out-of-place self-doubt society

E.M. Forster

ece8362

It's a stage we all go through; it takes a certain amount of living to strike the strange balance between the two errors either of regarding ourselves as unforgivable or as not needing forgiveness.

life living self-doubt

Madeleine L'Engle