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Quotes About Inadequate

I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street.
~ Jojo Moyes
I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm.
~ Jojo Moyes
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
~ Eric Butterworth
The reasons one gives for an action to others and to one's self are certainly inadequate. One can give a reason for everything. In the last resort one acts from a level which remains hidden from us. So one can only ask God to judge us and to forgive us. . . . At the end of the day I can only ask God to give a merciful judgement on today and all its decisions. It is now in his hand.
~ Eric Metaxas
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
~ Erika Slezak
I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.
~ Christopher Heyerdahl
I was such a bad red-carpet host.
~ Dan Levy
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.
~ Noam Chomsky
I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder—alternating as it does between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware—is inadequate to the task.
~ Barack Obama
Eventually incarnation Christologies developed significantly and overtook exaltation Christologies, which came to be deemed inadequate and, eventually, "heretical.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.
~ Meg Ryan
The so-called spirituality that was handed to me by those who put me to the task of pastoral work was not adequate. I do not find the emaciated, exhausted spirituality of institutional careerism adequate. I do not find the veneered, cosmetic spirituality of personal charisma adequate.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.
~ Jurgen Habermas
You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.
~ Edward Hirsch
Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
Never did I dream that while I was feeling so self-conscious and inadequate in the '60s, I was actually creating The Judith Durham Look!
~ Judith Durham
I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.
~ Eric Bogosian
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
~ Bertholt Brecht
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life
~ Bertolt Brecht
the public has always loved Social Security; they do not want it to change; they like it the way it is. In fact, the only real criticism from the public is that the cost of living adjustment (the COLA) is inadequate in keeping up with rising costs.
~ Sherrod Brown
In fact, it was our second president, John Adams, who said of our thoroughly researched and developed governing document, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
~ Ben Carson
Whether adult children of toxic parents were beaten when little or left alone too much, sexually abused or treated like fools, overprotected or overburdened by guilt, they almost all suffer surprisingly similar symptoms: damaged self-esteem, leading to self-destructive behavior. In one way or another, they almost all feel worthless, unlovable, and inadequate.
~ Susan Forward
In many cases, I'm sure that no harmful intent existed, but speculating on intent is a waste of time. It's the results that count. If harm was done by inadequate parents, the intent is irrelevant. Inadequate parents are responsible both for what they did do and for what they didn't.
~ Susan Forward
As adults, they often become trapped in a vicious cycle of accepting responsibility for everything, inevitably falling short, feeling guilty and inadequate, and then redoubling their efforts. This is a draining, depleting cycle that leads to an ever-increasing sense of failure.
~ Susan Forward