Inferiority Quotes

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

  Alvin Ailey

  Life Is, Breaking Down, Process

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• The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

  Don Shula

  Wrestling, Men, Blame

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• The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

  Mark Twain

  Recovery, Animal, Intelligent

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.264, Univ of California Press

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• Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

  Emily Post

  Envy, Suspicion

  Emily Post (1905). “Purple & Fine Linen: By Emily Post”

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Envy suggests inferiority.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Envy

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• Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

  Alfred Adler

  Reality, Expression, Feelings

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• While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

  Henry C. Link

  Leadership, Confidence, Motivation

  Henry C. Link (1945). “The Return to Religion”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Literature

  "The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days".

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

  Barry Gibb

  Ego, Complexes, Huge

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• Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.

  John Huston

  Beautiful, Giving, Trying

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• I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

  Mel Gibson

  Love, Funny, Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

  Alfred Adler

  Life, Struggle, Feelings

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• 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.

  Alan Kay

  Nature, Flower, Should Have

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• 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.

  Alfred Adler

  Powerful, Mean, Emotional

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• 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.

  Earl Warren

  Birthday, Children, Heart

  Brown v. Board of Education (1954) See John M. Harlan (1833 - 1911) 1; Kerner 1

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• Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Men, Merit

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.100, 谷月社

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• 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.

  Angelina Grimke

  Men, Peculiar, Privilege

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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

  John B. Keane

  Thinking, Ireland And The Irish, Hurling

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

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Males, Destroying

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Lying, Acceptance

  1967 Speech at the Christian leadership conference, Atlanta, 16 Aug.

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• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Food, Deserving It, Feminist

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.855, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Race, Racism, Different

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

  Cesare Pavese

  Ambition, Sin

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.101, Transaction Publishers

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