Albert Ellis Quotes

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

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.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

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.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

I put enough pressure on myself already - I can sit here and work myself into an anxiety-filled breakdown without worrying what everyone else is going to think.

I know now that much of the pressure that resulted in my breakdown was self-imposed. I didn't let myself enjoy the opportunities I was given, choosing instead to doubt myself.

The thing you have to be on guard against, more than anything, is self-sabotage. You have to make sure you're not your own worst enemy.

I'm my biggest problem; I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life.

People are often very limiting to themselves and can be their own worst enemy.

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?

Fear of failure leads to failure.

The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it.

You'll often find that it's not mom or dad, husband or wife, or the kids that's stopping you. It's you. Get out of your own way.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

Underconfidence breeds underachievement.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.