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Quotes About Inferiority

Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big – bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
~ Ian Fleming
Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big Ã¢â'¬â€œ bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
~ Ian Fleming
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
~ Daniel Craig
Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?
~ Steven Galloway
I have an inferiority complex, but it's not a very good one.
~ Steven Wright
I like you, Lahash. I find you attractive. Yet I looked at you beside him, and you are like a pinprick of light to his sun. That is the legacy of having loved him.
~ Storm Constantine
You, my dear, are a sidekick. You always were in the past, and you are now. Azazel has the power, not you. Do not make the mistake of over-estimating your value.
~ Storm Constantine
To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.
~ James D. Watson
I'm just not sure that I'm good enough for her. She's a top shelf drink, I'm a house poured shot.
~ Yara Greathouse, Dismantled
Can you imagine what it would be like to look into somebody's eyes and know that their destiny is so much greater than yours, that you will never compete? You will always be left behind.
~ Lois Lane
We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.
~ Murray Leinster
Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through "opinions" and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through "opinions" or ridicule.
~ Napoleon Hill
It should be recognised as a crime (in reality it is a crime of the worst nature) for any parent to build inferiority complexes in the mind of a child through unnecessary criticism. Employers who understand human nature get the best there is out of people not by criticism but by constructive suggestion. Parents may accomplish the same results with their children. Criticism will plant fear or resentment in the human heart but it will not build love or affection.
~ Napoleon Hill
Las gentes con el alma pequeña siempre tratan de empequeñecer a los demás
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Zavist je religija mediokriteta.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Envy is the religion of the mediocre.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Son las alimañas mezquinas quienes siempre se sienten virtuosas y miran al resto del mundo por encima del hombro.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
La envidia es la religión de los mediocres.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Dunces and blockheads live in a state of perpetual envy.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
El cazurro y el zoquete viven en un estado de perenne envidia.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
como no hablaba eso le hacía parecer superior.
~ Carson McCullers
Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.
~ Bobbie Ann Mason
I advance it therefore [...] that the blacks [...] are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Another central premise of the civil rights vision is that belief in innate inferiority explains policies and practices of differential treatment, whether expressed in overt hostility or in institutional policies or individual decisions that result in statistical disparities. Moral defenses or causal explanations of these statistical differences in any other terms tend themselves to fall under suspicion or denunciation as racism, sexism, etc.
~ Thomas Sowell