Dinesh Karthik Quotes

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

The biggest thing I've learned is just to not doubt myself as much as I do. Having self-doubt is definitely necessary, but it's about not letting it get in the way. When it turns into fear, you run into problems.

There are times I felt insecure or not sure: I'm unsure of myself, or I get nervous, but nerves are good. I try and embrace all those things. I try and embrace the times where I'm not sure of myself or I'm like, 'Is this going to work? Is this going to land?'

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

You have to break yourself down to rebuild yourself stronger.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

I can live with myself.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

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.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

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

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.