Quotes About Inferiority

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.

Vince McMahon has the worst inferiority complex of anybody in history.

If a show is wickedly, hugely popular, like 'Mad Men,' I assume that the masses, in their infinite inferiority to me, don't know what good TV is and that everyone is just brainwashed.

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

When people tell you that you're less-than and that you don't matter and that you're inferior, you internalize some of that.

Having a healthy relationship with food means you are not morally superior or inferior based on your eating choices.

I'm totally out of his league. You know? He's British. He was raised by a Lady. As in a capital L Lady. He dates vamps, some of whom are royalty. I mean, I was raised in a children's home." "And you can hold your own anywhere with anyone, Janie," Alex said, staunchly.

She had always known that she was rated less than Howard, the treasured son. Now, however, she knew that she was ranked somewhere below "miscellaneous cuttings.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority. Hence labour was something that both races on the slave plantation sought to escape.

People don't like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.

The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that's the only thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here.

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

When I first met Alan, I was absolutely terrified. I was 19, he was Alan Rickman, and he's got that voice, and I remember meeting him in the hair and make-up trailer and thinking, 'I'm going to die. He thinks I'm rubbish. Why am I here?'

It is Maya that makes you feel, "This man is inferior and the other man is superior.

From observations arising from deep experiential therapy, the determined striving for external goals and the pursuit of success do very little in overcoming feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem, no matter the outcome of these endeavors. The feelings of inferiority cannot be resolved by mobilizing one's forces to overcompensate them, but by confronting them experientially and surrendering to them.

Well, for one, you walk around like you're so much better than everyone else. We're all a bunch of soulless animals or somethin' in your eyes, I guess. You're the high and mighty one and I ain't fit to drink your piss.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

Cultural racism—the cultural images and messages that affirm the assumed superiority of Whites and the assumed inferiority of people of color—is like smog in the air. Some days it is so thick it is visible, other times it is less apparent, but always, day in and day out, we are breathing it in.

For the first time in my life, sitting there in the soundproof heart of the UN building between Constantin who could play tennis as well as simultaneously interpret and the Russian girl who knew so many idioms, I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

For the first time in my life, sitting there in the soundproof heart of the UN building between Constantin who could play tennis as well as simultaneously interpret and the Russian girl who knew so many idioms, I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

Insults are the last resort of an insecure man with a crumbling argument