Ann Brashares Quotes

Personally, I've struggled with a lot of doubt in myself at times.

I've learned from personal experience that insecurity and doubting yourself can really hurt you.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Everyone around me has more confidence in me than I do in myself.

If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

I love myself, the way I look, my body, but sometimes I can't help but feel insecure.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.

I wish I had more confidence.

I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.

You never know if they like you for who you are or what you are. Would he love me or the money?

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I had low self-esteem.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

I don't think it's a healthy thing in your personal life to go around with that never-sure attitude.

It doesn't mean a thing when others tell you you're good. You have to feel it yourself.

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.