Quotes About Inadequacy

Worte taugen nichts. Ja, manchmal klangen sie wunderbar, aber sie liessen einen im Stich, sobald man sie wirklich brauchte. Nie fand man die richtigen, niemals, aber wo sollte man auch nach ihnen suchen? Das Herz ist stumm wie ein Fish, auch wenn die Zunge sich noch so viel Muehe gibt, ihm eine Stimme zu geben.

You can't put': Hiccup in charge, sir, he's USELESS.

As we admit our inadequacy to run the race alone and accept God's gracious redemption, then the race begins to have meaning, validity, and most of all, freedom.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Boy, you couldn't pour pee out of a boot with instructions on the heel.

Perhaps we would all like to love more richly than we do. Many novels are about love—most are, perhaps—and it gives us pleasure to identify with the loving characters. They are free, and we are not. But we may not want to admit this; for to do so might make us feel, consciously, that our own loves are inadequate.

Sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth, I'll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I'm not even particularly good at being myself.

I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgement of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

She always felt a little uneasy around women who were more sophisticated than she was.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn't measure up, and I never would. I

At bedrock is the fear of being seen as essentially flawed, inadequate, and unworthy of being loved.

people who feel shamed and inadequate themselves tend to pass it on. I'm sure you've noticed that many individuals and groups try to enhance their self-esteem by diminishing others.

I've begun to have those stupid dreams. You know the ones where you show up for the final exam and haven't cracked a book all semester?

It's pathetic. It's a bottomless pit. A barrel that has no floor. He must be a man who has an ever-crumbling estimation of himself. He's constantly filling himself up.

To feel forever inadequate: Is this simply the universal condition of being a father?

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

It scared me when she said perfect. Perfect was always too much to ask.

Unlike Fred and Paddy, I don't get many offers of work other than 'Top Gear,' because I'm crap at everything else.

I'm so unqualified to be a family therapist.