Eric Hoffer Quotes

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

Even though I'm in the industry and I act and all this stuff, I still suffer from self-esteem issues... from the way that I look or the way that I talk... just nitpicking at myself.

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

I will never be able to fix myself enough to the point I like myself, so I just jumped to the point where I said, 'I like myself as I am.'

I struggled with my confidence a lot.

I have insecurity problems like every teenage girl, but you have to work through them.

You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

In my professional and personal life, when I meet people who feel broken after a divorce, they can usually be divided into two categories: those who truly believe there's something wrong with them, and those that are using their status as armor.

I've had a lot of self-esteem issues.

I think that people think that since I literally wrote the book on how to love yourself that I love myself all the time, but I don't.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.