Inferiority Quotes

I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

Envy suggests inferiority.

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they actually are inferior and they secretly know it.

The inferiority of women is man-made.

The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex.

One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.

trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't.

Realize the complicated specials of what we call the "inferiority complex." In other words, what, Miss Thing, is so damn special about you to make you feel so specially inferior to any other jerk?

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.

What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.