Quotes about Inferiority

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. Votes: 4

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. Votes: 4

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. Votes: 4

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. Votes: 4

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. Votes: 4

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. Votes: 4

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time. Votes: 4

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody. Votes: 4

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. Votes: 4

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. Votes: 4

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. Votes: 4

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. Votes: 4

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship. Votes: 4

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it. Votes: 3

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. Votes: 3

Inferiority complex is a gold plated highway to the throne of depression Votes: 3

Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated storiesCourageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values! Votes: 3

Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated stories... Courageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values! Votes: 3

Inferiority complex begins when you agree that you are nothing. No one is responsible or author of it except yourself. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. Votes: 3

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority. Votes: 2

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes. Votes: 2

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. Votes: 2

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. Votes: 2

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. Votes: 2

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. Votes: 2

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it. Votes: 2

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. Votes: 2

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else. Votes: 2

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. Votes: 2

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies. Votes: 2

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship. Votes: 2

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture. Votes: 2

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. Votes: 2

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity. Votes: 2

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. Votes: 2

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. Votes: 2

In East, South and Central Africa, the minority manipulated the majority into believing the minority was the majority, that there were more whites in the world than blacks; instilled in the blacks a sense of inferiority, inadequacy, worthlessness. Votes: 2

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. Votes: 2

No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him. Votes: 2

Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example. Votes: 2

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority. Votes: 2

Envy suggests inferiority. Votes: 1

Feeling inferior is complex; being superior is easy. Votes: 1

... whose inferiority proclaimed her own supremacy so loud... Votes: 1

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find. Votes: 1

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps Votes: 1

Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior Votes: 1

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. Votes: 1

Leaders create a conducive environment for followers to accomplish their respective dreams. True leaders never fall for anything inferior! Votes: 1

It is only the people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. Votes: 1

Don't show your inferiority by climbing a stunted tree, show your superiority by climbing the longest and crooked one. Votes: 1

The only way that someone could be superior over you, is if you repeatedly convince yourself to believe so. Votes: 1

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. Votes: 1

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking. Votes: 1

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than. Votes: 1

Remember you don't own people, let them decide, choose and live. There is no inferiority and superiority; it is just your crazy imagination. Votes: 1

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. Votes: 1

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever. Votes: 1

It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people. Votes: 1

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. Votes: 1

People with inferiority intentions do not go after their dreams not because they can't go; but because their passion is not strong enough to turn the wheels of success...and there they go, becoming losers, defeated by their obstacles! Votes: 1

It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all countries, including America, the truth is that women have a low social status, and are considered inferior. Votes: 1

Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively kept in an inferior situation. Votes: 1

Superiority complex does not mean "pride" although it appears to be so in the eyes of those who want to see it so. When you feel a higher esteem over the obstacles you desire to surmount, you highly overcome them and can still count a reserved energy to spare! Votes: 1

Short men are happy, for they can pass easily through the door. Tall men are happy, for they can stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, short men are angry, for they cannot stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, tall men are angry, for they cannot pass easily through the door. Votes: 1

Quotation confesses inferiority. Votes: 0

The inferiority of women is man-made. Votes: 0

Envy is a declaration of inferiority. Votes: 0

I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex. Votes: 0

Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex. Votes: 0

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority. Votes: 0

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides. Votes: 0

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority. Votes: 0

Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex. Votes: 0

People hate who makes you feel one's inferiority. Votes: 0

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national. Votes: 0

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. Votes: 0

Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions. Votes: 0

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority. Votes: 0

The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority. Votes: 0

I have an inferiority complex, but it's not a very good one. Votes: 0

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..." Votes: 0

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it. Votes: 0

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us. Votes: 0

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex? Votes: 0

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer. Votes: 0

...and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky... Votes: 0

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. Votes: 0

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority. Votes: 0

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others. Votes: 0

It's curious that people go wrong so often between inferiority complex and self-confidence. Pitiful isn't it? Votes: 0

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority. Votes: 0

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority Votes: 0

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority. Votes: 0

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution. Votes: 0

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority. Votes: 0

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. Votes: 0

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened. Votes: 0

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides. Votes: 0

One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility. Votes: 0

Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended. Votes: 0

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part. Votes: 0

If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless. Votes: 0

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation. Votes: 0

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. Votes: 0

Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex. Votes: 0

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death. Votes: 0

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority. Votes: 0

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority. Votes: 0

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death. Votes: 0

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority. Votes: 0

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect Votes: 0

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks. Votes: 0

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. Votes: 0

We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon her intellectual inferiority. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one Votes: 0

Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority. Votes: 0

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity Votes: 0

I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young. Votes: 0

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. Votes: 0

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority. Votes: 0

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. Votes: 0

Like a physically beautiful but otherwise rather dull person who trades on his or her looks, Southern California swings perpetually between a profound inferiority complex and an equally profound sense of entitlement. Votes: 0

... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song. Votes: 0

We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was once and for a very long time the superior and dominant sex. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false. Votes: 0

Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control. Votes: 0