Sentence examples for I lack confidence. from inspiring English sources

I find it hard to explore new places when I lack confidence in my abilities.

"I lack confidence as an actor," he told The Toronto Star in 1988.

"I don't know whether I lack confidence that if I went for a job in a school whether really I would be employed.

Even so, when I interview this elusive singer-songwriter after one of her rare concerts, she says, "I lack confidence". I point out that her career a series of big swerves made up of innumerable small ones indicates the opposite.

I would say that in some respects I lack confidence, but it is so common in high achievers of either sex to feel that they don't merit their success.

"I strongly disapprove of some of the past deeds of the Federal Reserve while Ben Bernanke was a member and its chairman, and I lack confidence in what little planning for the future he has articulated," Richard Shelby of Alabama, the Senate Banking Committee's top-ranking Republican, said in December during a committee vote on Mr. Bernanke's reconfirmation.

As a student at school, I lacked confidence.

For many years, I lacked confidence and would too easily feel abandoned.

When I first joined the civil service I lacked confidence and felt I did not belong there or was good enough to be on the fast stream.

"I was only 16, and it wasn't as if I lacked confidence, but I thought I wouldn't mind playing another year or two and mature a bit.

As a young person, I lacked confidence, despite performing well at school, and I had this idea that writers were a different breed – that I was born into the wrong family for this to be a possibility.