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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
"Whatever you do, it's never enough."
Naomi Watts
"I think the greatest fear of being an actor is being boring"
Joaquin Phoenix
"I'm not really sure, but I think it might be that I'm just not enough"
Sza
"When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble."
Angelina Jolie
"Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head"
Meryl Streep
"I trust no one, not even myself. "
Joseph Stalin
"Doubt often creeps in when our determination starts to fade away"
Lewis Howes
"I don't think anyone has a clue about what they're doing"
Venus Williams
"You know, I always feel like I'm just one bad review away from going back to bartending"
Pedro Pascal
"The thing that kept me from being a writer was writers' block"
Ben Affleck
"I always wanted to be an actor, but I never felt like I belonged"
Jessica Chastain
"If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail."
Kobe Bryant
"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
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"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
"Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it – which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don’t know."
Paulo Coelho
"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
"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
"The biggest dreams aren’t fueled by belief. They’re fueled by doubt."
Kobe Bryant