Insecurity Quotes

Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Backstabbers operate out of insecurity, believing they have to have perfect order to eliminate any threat to their power.

Les Parrott

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. It is when we all play safe that fatality will lead us to our doom. It is in the "dark shade of courage" alone that the spell can be broken.

Dag Hammarskjld

In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side

Theodore Forstmann

Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity.

Alfred Adler

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.

John Allen Paulos

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

Jimmy Carter

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert A. Heinlein

Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.

David Joseph Bohm
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