Meredith Vieira Quotes

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'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

I understand that feeling of insecurity, like you're not good enough as you are, and you need to change.

I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self-esteem.

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 went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

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.

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.'

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

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

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?

One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.

A fear of not being good enough? But that's what drives me.

I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.

Most women beat themselves up because they think they are not good enough at anything. All of those things just eat at you all the time.

I'm a bit rubbish at knowing when something is good. But if it goes out and I can say, "I wasn't as bad as I thought I would be", then I'll be happy. Until then, I'll be thinking, "I shouldn't be here!"

The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.

The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.

We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.