Quotes About Inadequacy

One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

My stuff is observational, what people do with their lives from the angle of a man that can't pull it off. So if I talk about having a family, it would be through the medium of a man who is in no fit state to be given a child to look after.

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses.

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

I must be rubbish as I can only play one sport.

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

Of course I don't think I have it made by any means. I'm too insecure, obsessive and paranoid for that.

I'm a terrible parallel parker.

As we have seen, we ought to affirm our view of God while at the same time realizing that that view is inadequate.

What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

I don't have the vocal dexterity, nor do I have the desire to put myself in among the giants.

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

Sometimes being human isn't enough.

The Astors and the Vanderbilts, their pleasure domes and money: she was sick of it. Sick of envying, sick of herself. She didn't understand antiques or architecture, she couldn't draw like Sylvia, she didn't read like Ted, she had few interests and no expertise. A paucity for love was the only true thing she'd ever had.

each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately evident that such satisfactions are not enough; they are not what we have really sought; they cannot really satisfy us at all.

Dr. Abraham Morgentaler speaking about his book on the CBS morning show a year or so ago. "Men feel embattled, they feel like they can't get it right

I kind of put people from the past up on a pedestal; I don't think, in a lot of ways, that we're at their level.

Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

I'm a dreamer, and I'm a perfectionist, and I love excellence, and that's hardwired in me. But when I was young, I lived in a space for a long time where I only felt insufficient.

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