Trevor Noah Quotes

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

I find that the vast majority of people who are judging are just fearful or insecure.

At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.

So many people are paralyzed by worrying, "What are these people going to think?"

I've always had a problem saying what I feel for fear of having someone dislike me.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial.

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

I was paralyzed for so long by people's opinions. I would be devastated to the point where I didn't know if I could make it through the day.

I worry that's what people are going to think about me if they kind of go backwards. But if that didn't happen to you, I'll feel better.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

I feel intimidated by fashion.

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.