Inferiority Quotes

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

  Alvin Ailey

  Life Is, Breaking Down, Process

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Recovery, Animal, Intelligent

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.264, Univ of California Press

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• The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

  Don Shula

  Wrestling, Men, Blame

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Literature

  "The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days".

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• Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

  Alfred Adler

  Reality, Expression, Feelings

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• While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

  Henry C. Link

  Leadership, Confidence, Motivation

  Henry C. Link (1945). “The Return to Religion”, p.29, Lulu.com

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

  Vanna Bonta

  Superiority Complex, Complexes, Awakened

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• Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

  Sun Tzu

  Encouragement, War, Arrogance

  "The Art of War". Chapter I: Detail Assessment and Planning. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Philosophical, Men

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Men, Individualism

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 36 (11 April 1776)

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• We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

  Alfred Adler

  Temper, Bad Temper, Inferiority Complex

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

  William Gilbert

  Ideas, Littles, Opinion

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• 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.

  Marilyn French

  Humanness Is, Lists, Groups

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• Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Feelings, Rancor

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• 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.

  Jacquetta Hawkes

  Women, Differences, People

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

  Carter G. Woodson

  School, Convinced

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.2, Book Tree

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• 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.

  George J. Mitchell

  Relationship, Sports, Brother

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• The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

  William Bolitho

  Marriage, Girl, Strong

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• It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

  Rupert Grint

  Self Esteem, Careers, Long

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• Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.

  Jessie Tarbox Beals

  Photography, Horse, Art

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

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feminism, Doe, Facts

  "Nature of the second sex".

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• Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Your Best Friend, Enjoy

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• 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.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Book, Class, Study

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.2, Book Tree

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

  Peter Matthiessen

  Fiction, Used, Term

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