Bob Greene Quotes

People always want to doubt you.

You're dumb, but don't give in.

Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.

All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says.

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

It's not easy to filter out all the negative things people say and/or write about you.

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won't amount to crap, and that I'm going to be a bust.

I've been having people doubt me all my life.

So many people were ready to write me off as being washed up at 20, I started to believe all that negative stuff myself.

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.

There's more people that like me than there are who hate me, so I kind of brush it off.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I lost my confidence.

I'm always coming up against scepticism in my life.

I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.

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

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset.

As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.

Who am I to say CM Punk is a joke?