Quotes About Inadequacy

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

Everyone helping out was supposed to make me feel better, but it actually made me feel more like a screw up.

He's an undersized pissant with delusions of adequacy.

Sometimes we know people who aretoo wonderful for words. I am not one of them.Or you, for that matter, as you well know.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

I am the queen of mediocre, the king of nothingness

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

It's a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.

Loving her made me ache inside, because there was nothing I could do. No matter how much I loved her, it didn't help. I couldn't make her skin fit.

Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?

She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She understood now the case of girls like herself to whom this kind of thing happened. They gave all they had, but their all was not enough; it could not buy more than a few moments...

I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person.

She felt the pitiful inadequacy of this, and understood, with a sense of despair, that in her inability to express herself she must give him an impression of coldness and reluctance; but she could not help it.

Isn't it natural that I should try to belittle all the things I can't offer you?

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things

When Narcissists want something from people, they actually see them as great and wonderful. That's why their hypnosis is so effective. Once Superstars get what they want, their perceptions return to what, for them, is normal—seeing ordinary people as inadequate. The problem is that the people they seduce may still be laboring under the delusion that they are as special as the Superstars said they were.