Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I get in my own way a lot. I feel a lot more confident than I... am.

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

People are often very limiting to themselves and can be their own worst enemy.

Underconfidence breeds underachievement.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

I'm usually pretty insecure.

I'm really insecure about everything.

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

I've always had confidence issues; I just get scared of doing things wrong.

When I don't feel that I'm good enough, I put myself in a corner.

I am very self-doubting; it has come out of experience.

The thing you have to be on guard against, more than anything, is self-sabotage. You have to make sure you're not your own worst enemy.

I believed what people said, that I don't deserve to be a leader because of the way I look. That I don't deserve to be popular, that I don't deserve to be loved. I'm not intelligent.

I always make things worse than they are or create problems that aren't there. And going and doing some simple task becomes a problem. I start imagining problems that aren't there. What people are going to think, who's going to judge me and am I going to be good enough? Am I worthy?