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Quotes About Inferiority

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
~ B. C. Forbes
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and of humanity.
~ Alfred Adler
Od straha su ljudi zli i surovi i podli, od straha su darežljivi, ?ak i dobri. Sve se niži višega boji. A onaj koji nema nikog da se boji taj preza pred strahom kog mu ra?a njegova bolesna mašta, jer strah je kao zaraza koja ispunjava sve mozgove. Kad bih mogao zaviriti u nutrinu ovom ?ovjeku kom je odre?eno da me mu?i, mislim da bih našao malu, bijednu dušu, izmu?enu obzirima i strahom pred propustima i ukorima. Žao mi ga je i ta me samilost boli.
~ Ivo Andri?
JEALOUSY, AND RIDICULE.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
When she heard the door behind her open, she spoke without turning. You've got a man who doesn't particularly like women as a species, considers them inferior. Well, to be fair, considers everyone inferior, but I got a definitive vibe women were lowest on his feeding chain. Called me 'miss,' she grumbled. And lived? Roarke stepped behind her and began rubbing her shoulders.
~ J.D. Robb
Bienvenido al maravilloso mundo de los celos. Por el precio de su entrada, obtiene un maldito dolor de cabeza, un deseo casi irresistible de cometer un homicidio. Y un complejo de inferioridad. Yupi.
~ J.R. Ward
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistible urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex.
~ J.R. Ward
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistible urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.
~ J.R. Ward
In the Old Language, he whispered, "I am barren of words, my female. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing.
~ J.R. Ward
Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.
~ Amy Heckerling
There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.
~ Arundhati Roy
No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less
~ E. W. Howe
The sullen workman who is afraid of being imposed upon is secretly convinced of his own inferiority--when he has to say, or think, "I'm as good as any man," he doesn't quite believe it himself.
~ Sydney J. Harris
While architecture's sense of disciplinary inferiority ultimately derives from the antique pyramid of expression that placed language and poetry at its lofty apex and building down amid the mud and toil of the ground, architecture's Sisyphean effort to achieve elevation only became more futile with the development of modern capitalism on the one hand […] and avant-garde strategies of opposition on the other.
~ Sylvia Lavin
It's the first time I've really enjoyed dancing. I sometimes even forget I belong to an inferior race. The Twist is the greatest ritual since circumcision—and there you can choose between the genius of two cultures. Myself I prefer the Twist."1
~ Sylvie Simmons
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it.
~ T. Christian Miller
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
~ Ted Olson
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
~ Samuel Johnson
The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It's 'flip and flirty,' as my mother prescribed. It's crisp yet splendid. It makes me feel I've put on made-to-order armor. My mother's armor. Armor that helped shield me from exclusion. Armor that helped shield me from inferiority.
~ Margo Jefferson
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.
~ Frantz Fanon
You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.
~ Sid Vicious
How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.
~ Daniel O'Connell
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
~ Sinclair Lewis
He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.
~ Maya Angelou