David Nicholls Quotes

When a nice girl overcompensates, her behavior says, “What I have to offer isn’t enough, and who I am isn’t enough.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

Do you feel insecure because you keep getting the nagging feeling that you're not that smart? Well, I've got good news for you, my friend. You have no need to be insecure. That nagging feeling is absolutely right on target. You are not that smart. But I have more good news for you. You are also not alone.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

I didn't quite believe I was pretty for a long time. I never thought about it.

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

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

I am an approval junkie.

I have struggled with self-esteem issues since my teens, but it's clear in my first long-ago diary that I didn't start out that way. I acquired my low self-esteem. I learned it.

I always seek people's approval and I'm always never good enough.

I was made to believe there's something wrong with me.

When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.

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.

If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.

It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.

It's kind of hard to believe that people love me.

Underconfidence breeds underachievement.

I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don't ask for it, everyone will forget about me: I will be a little kid sent off to sleep-away camp whose parents forget to meet her at the bus when she comes back in August. Or else I think people are nice to me only to be nice to me, that they feel sorry for me because I am such a loser- as if anyone could possibly be that generous.

All it takes is for one person to say you’re ugly, and you’re like, I guess I’m ugly. And that was it.

Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.