Quotes About Inadequacy

Im sick of not being good enough.

Im breaking down because I'm sick of never being good enough, and I'm done trying to be.

I didn't feel that I had any good qualities. Or rather, none were good enough. Nothing I did or said was good enough, but I couldn't make anyone understand the way I felt.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth.

If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

Could she *be* anymore out of my league?

All images and sensations, if idolatrously mistaken for Joy itself, soon honestly confessed themselves inadequate. All said, in a last resort, It is not high. I am only a reminder. Look! Look! What do I remind you of? CS Lewis

Because I'm a girl, Claire thought. She was barely able to contain the relief welling up inside her. Because we're all stupid and insecure and think that we're never, ever good enough.

Because we're all stupid and insecure and think that we're never, ever good enough.

full of classes he has never taken, grades he never earned

Yet we can look at other people and, more or less, see the inadequacy of our ideological individuality. We often point out that someone "was born a bad seed and was going to turn out rotten no matter what," or someone "was destined to triumph and succeed." In fact, "it's in the stars" is still used, even though in modern intellectual circles the concepts of Fate and Destiny are

Io, invece, in mezzo a tanto fervore d'interezza, mi sentivo sempre più triste e manchevole. Alle volte uno si crede incompleto ed è soltanto giovane.

As long as you hold an improved self-image as a future possibility, you simultaneously hold the image of yourself as inadequate and incomplete. You are, in effect, a house divided.

Successful leaders have learned that no failure is final, whether his own failure or someone else's. No one is perfect, and we cannot be right all the time. Failures and even feelings of inadequacy can provoke humility and serve to remind a leader who is really in charge.

What was my personal Big Bang? Did I get hooked on guns because I discovered I was good at precisely the moment I was experiencing my first feelings of masculine inadequacy? All I knew at the time was that the rifle range replaced the nurse's office as my place of refuge.

But being a substitute parent? Him? It was a tall order for a guy who couldn't even keep a houseplant alive.

People... h?v? liv?d in a ??nditi?n of denial, di?t?rt?d feelings, ?nd ??m?ul?iv? b?h?vi?r?, ?nd as a r??ult, th?? h?v? developed l?w self-worth, deep ?h?m?, in?d??u???, ?nd ?ng?r.

there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

It's not that people want to get hurt again. It's that they want to master a situation in which they felt helpless as children. Freud called this "repetition compulsion." Maybe this time, the unconscious imagines, I can go back and heal that wound from long ago by engaging with somebody familiar—but new. The only problem is, by choosing familiar partners, people guarantee the opposite result: they reopen the wounds and feel even more inadequate and unlovable.

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

Goodbye, goodbye! There was so much to love, I could not love it all; I could not love it enough.