Inferiority Quotes

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.

Toba Beta

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

Criss Jami

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Eckhart Tolle

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

C.S. Lewis

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Jos

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Henry Adams

An inferiority complex would be a blessing, if only the right people had it.

Alan Reed

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Alfred Adler

To be human means to feel inferior.

Alfred Adler

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

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Alfred Adler

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.

Alfred Adler

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

George Santayana

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it.

W. S. Gilbert

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

Jean de La Fontaine

The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview.

Charles Dickens

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

George Herbert

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

Lord Chesterfield