Inferiority Quotes - Page 3

• Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Your Best Friend, Enjoy

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

  Carl Jung

  Reason, Inferiority Complex, Complexes

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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• Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Envy, Declaration

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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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• Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Feelings, Rancor

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

  B. C. Forbes

  Jealousy, Cancer, Consciousness

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Overcoming, Resentment, Imitation

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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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 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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• The idea of racial inferiority or superiority is foreign to me. I can't feel inferior or superior to another man because of race, or in any way antagonistic to him. I judge by the individual, not by his race, and have always done so. I would rather have one of my children marry into a good family of any race than into a bad family of any other race.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Children, Men, Race

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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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• 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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• I leave at half-time; by then you can see which way it's going. If you ask me to name five of our team, I couldn't. There's that guy who scores goals - Taarabt. Routledge I've heard of. All bloody nice guys but I don't mix with them so I don't know them well. I don't go in the dressing room. They can walk out of the showers and I feel I've got an inferiority complex.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Football, Nice, Team

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• I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.

  Steven Wright

  Very Good, Inferiority Complex, Complexes

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• Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Salami, Complexes, Baloney

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.64, Bantam

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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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• If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as possible. If you have inferiority complex, or have a very deficient ego you will loose your temper very easily.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Anger, Ego

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• A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.

  Wendy Mass

  Kindness, Regret, Lying

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• A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded.
  It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.

  Stendhal

  Air, Hands, Want Something

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  James A. Baldwin

  Believe, Trying, Doe

  "A Letter to My Nephew" by James Baldwin, progressive.org. January 1, 1962.

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