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Self Doubt Quotes

"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
Vincent Van Gogh
"If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail."
Kobe Bryant
"I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you al"
Kobe Bryant
"The biggest dreams aren’t fueled by belief. They’re fueled by doubt."
Kobe Bryant
"We psych ourselves up too much. Like if you try to talk yourself into, ‘Oh, this is a big moment, this is a big shot,’ you’re putting a lot of pressure on yourself. You shot that shot hundreds and thousands of times. Just shoot another one."
Kobe Bryant
"Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say yes” to life?"
Paulo Coelho
"Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it – which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don’t know."
Paulo Coelho
"After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn’t bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it’s a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it’s sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we’re doing the right thing."
Paulo Coelho
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too."
Johnny Depp
"Whatever you do, it's never enough."
Naomi Watts
"I always wanted to be an actor, but I never felt like I belonged"
Jessica Chastain
"The thing that kept me from being a writer was writers' block"
Ben Affleck
"You know, I always feel like I'm just one bad review away from going back to bartending"
Pedro Pascal
"I don't think anyone has a clue about what they're doing"
Venus Williams