Inferiority Quotes

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

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

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

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

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

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.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

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.

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.