Quotes About Inadequacy

Why didn't you make me good enough...so you could have loved me?

I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.

So many people have gone through the experience of not feeling good enough.

He was my best friend. I would always love him, and it would never, ever be enough.

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

A major reason for procrastination is a feeling of inadequacy, a lack of confidence, or an inability in a key area of a task. Feeling weak or deficient in a single area is enough to discourage you from starting the job at all.

Coming from an unsuccessful background, I had developed deep feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. I had fallen into the mental trap of assuming that people who were doing better than me were actually better than me. What I learned was that this was not necessarily true. They were just doing things differently, and what they had learned to do, within reason, I could learn as well.

When you complain you actually weaken yourself. You generate feelings in yourself of inferiority and inadequacy. You feel angry and resentful. You feel negative and unsure. Your level of self-confidence and self-respect actually declines as you complain about anything to someone else. You hurt yourself by complaining much more than you hurt the target of the complaints, who you may not affect at all.

But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was always someone who was richer, more successful, more famous.. The idea of it was sometimes enough to make you want to give up.

Bode Gazzer was five feet six and had never forgiven his parents for it. He wore three-inch snakeskin shitkickers and walked with a swagger that suggested not brawn so much as hemorrhoidal tribulation.

He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

Aargh! I'm too short for this shit!

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

I think, a lot of times, where people see they're insufficient or lacking in certain areas, they feel they're being judged even when they're not. And they condemn themselves more than anyone else does.

Because if you are fresh from the hazing of PhD training, you are: insecure, defensive, paranoid, beset by feelings of inadequacy, pretentious, self-involved, communicatively challenged, and fixated on minutiae.

I was a sorry excuse for a girl.

I love you, ... It is hard for me to say, because sometimes it doesn't seem like it is enough.

She drew the curtains, and she got into bed, without taking off her clothes or her shoes. She felt ashamed and foolish. She felt covered in failure and she felt sure that people could smell and see it on her. The failure was like a fine coating of ash, after a fire. But it wasn't only on her skin; it was in her nose, in her mouth, in her lungs, in her molecules becoming part of her. She would never be rid of it.