Joseph Joubert Quotes

Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.

Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

I haven't met a woman without insecurities.

I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

I worried too much when I was a kid.

I know what paranoia is like. I know what it is like to worry about what people are saying about you and become obsessed with what people are saying about you.

I'm really scared of failing.

Despite the apparent trappings of modest success in television and so on, I have always been an uneasy person. I can't change that. I can't change that part of my psychological makeup.

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.