Quotes About Inadequacy

In short, every child develops in ways that best allow them to compensate for weakness; "a thousand talents and capabilities arise from our feelings of inadequacy," Adler noted.

When the first force, social feeling and community expectation, is ignored or affronted, the person concerned will reveal certain aggressive character traits: vanity, ambition, envy, jealousy, playing God, or greed; or nonaggressive traits: withdrawal, anxiety, timidity, or absence of social graces. When any of these forces gains the upper hand, it is usually because of deep-seated feelings of inadequacy. Yet the forces also create an intensity or tension that can give tremendous energy.

Jack, the world is full of people who can only feel big by making other people look small, and the bigger the target, the better they feel about it.

A Guards regiment, eh, Comrade Colonel? These tit-sucking children could not guard a Turkish whorehouse; much less do anything worthwhile inside of it!" While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev

Threats ... are the last resort of the inadequate negotiator.

But each in its own way was affected by the growing intolerance of immoderate inequality, initiating public provision to compensate for private inadequacy.

It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal.

Do Americans think of us? So she began as we squatted over the toilets: If you want, I'll tell you, but nothing I say will be enough.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence

Guilt says, "If only you had done it better." Shame says, "If only you had been better.

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Only an incompetent mind is content to express itself incompetently.

I knew a man who succeeded in finding an evil word for everything he didn't have and everything he didn't understand.

I was also afraid that I wouldn't be good enough to compete in that arena.

I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing

I am barren of words my female. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing.

Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart's sentiments.

In the Old Language, he whispered, "I am barren of words, my female. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing.

There was no tracking the precise words, but there probably weren't any. Sometimes language couldn't go far enough. All you could do was scream.

I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, 'How I can I compete with that?' Being a regular black girl wasn't good enough.

I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.

I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate.

Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.

I cannot even open an umbrella properly. How could I ever have been a civil engineering student?