Quotes About Inadequacy

I wish I could convey the perfection... But language founders in such seas

not enough to make a flea a waltzing jacket.

It's bad to have some power, but not enough.

If it were a peg, you couldn't hang a fucking hankie on it, never mind your coat.

I rocked you in my arms and I realized that none of us had ever been enough for Brick McGinty.

Our fears matter. Because ultimately, our fears show how we're relying on our own efforts and not trusting in our Savior. The truth is we—you and I and everyone—are always inadequate. We're never enough. We're always weak.

My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

and he doesn't want to come back. Not even for me. Not even for Fern. We're not enough.

He's an undersized pissant with delusions of adequacy.

The only problem is, by choosing familiar partners, people guarantee the opposite result: they reopen the wounds and feel even more inadequate and unlovable.

The release comes when first you realize you are indeed hopelessly inadequate, and then you realize for this you have God! You can't; He can! You are inadequate; He isn't. How

You already know he's a pathetic excuse for a man and you deserve better.

It's miserable to feel unwanted for reasons beyond your control.

I'm trying my best, but I feel like such a spare part.

When it comes to you? Hell no," he said. "With you, I'm so far out of my league I can't even see the league.

Because it's easier than facing the fact that I'm never quite . . . enough for someone.

Nobody can be bad at everything. There's no such thing as a perfect screwup.

Jealousy is common among lesser men

She wanted to tell him she was sorry, but saying she was sorry did not seem entirely adequate, and in any case what she was sorry about seemed at once too deep and too evanescent for any words she knew, seemed so vastly more complicated than the immediate fact that it was perhaps better left unraveled.

I could have been stronger," she said. "I wasn't enough to keep something so important.

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.

Being surrounded by successful people, doesn't mean you made it.

I hate being not good enough. Nothing I do is right. I'm so fu..ing over it. I want to get out of here.