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Quotes About Inferiority

Actually he was forty-three, and owing to a weak heart that made him ineligible for the Army, he had come to Brookfield as a war-time deputy. How a schoolmaster must envy a boy who is obviously going to grow up into a man of much superior personality to his own, and how easily that envy can turn to loathing if the boy senses it and is cruel!
~ James Hilton
Jealousy is ones fear that another is better than them.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.
~ Jacquetta Hawkes
Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.
~ Frederick Lenz
What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has.
~ Frederick Lenz
I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.
~ Junot Diaz
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Man is always inferior to a woman, a fact he will never realize nor confess in his lifetime!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
When you stand next to beauty and know you're not, you either feel inferior or you're thankful for the ones who saw you and loved you anyway.
~ Donna Lynn Hope
My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
~ Ram Kapoor
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
~ Thomas Mann
To compare other things with God, is to debase Deity; as if you should compare the shining of a glow-worm with the sun. 3.
~ Thomas Watson
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with sound self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realisation and successful achievement.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
I have operated on dozens and dozens of people to improve deficient features only to find that, after surgery, they replaced this real physical fault in their minds with a nonsensical belief which continued their unswerving fixation on their inferiority. Their negative beliefs varied; their movement toward failure was the same kind of mechanism.
~ Og Mandino
I will know that only those with inferior ability can always be at their best, and I am not inferior. There will be days when I must constantly struggle against forces which would tear me down. Those such as despair and sadness are simple to recognize but there are others which approach with a smile and the hand of friendship and they can also destroy me. Against them, too, I must never relinquish control—
~ Og Mandino
Time to repay old humiliations, is that it, Bean? 'Of course,' Ender said contemptuously. 'I'm not as close to the floor as you are.
~ Orson Scott Card
The nobler type of man is broad-minded and not prejudiced. The inferior man is prejudiced and not broad-minded.
~ Confucius
So here we stand among thoughts of human unity, even through conquest and slavery; the inferiority of black men, even if forced by fraud; a shriek in the night for the freedom of men who themselves are not yet sure of their right to demand it. This is the tangle of thought and afterthought wherein we are called to solve the problem of training men for life. Behind
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
dominant groups tend to entrench their hegemony by inculcating an image of inferiority in the subjugated.
~ Charles Taylor
Is it true that you have an internalized sense of inferiority? What? That because on the one hand you, for obvious reasons, have not been and can never be fully assimilated into mainstream,
~ Charles Yu