Meghan Daum Quotes

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

As I read the scriptures, it appears that those who receive the Savior's strongest reproach are often those who hold themselves in high esteem because of their wealth, influence, or perceived righteousness.

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

Men and nations cannot bear to feel inferior.

Countries are like adolescent entering a dance ... they're sure everybody is thinking about nothing but their inadequacies.

I grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else.

A lot of beautiful women that I have come across are the most insecure.

Vince McMahon has the worst inferiority complex of anybody in history.

There is nothing that makes me more falsely arrogant, like, wanting to defend myself, than a TSA agent.

I'm vain.

There are so many egos in this game - maybe we all need to come down a notch.

Feeling jealous doesn't make you a terrible person.

I think a lot of my angst comes from feeling unaccepted.

I had this ego that was unstable. If you said anything about me good or bad, it really went to my head.

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.

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

I've hated myself since I knew my own name. But 'Bake Off' has simply confirmed to me what a bottom-feeding halfwit I am.

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

For so many years, I thought I wasn't good enough.

So many people have gone through the experience of not feeling good enough.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.