Inferiority famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
-- Adolf Galland -
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
-- Alfred Adler -
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
-- Alvin Ailey -
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 -
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
-- Barry Gibb -
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.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
-- Cesare Pavese -
The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.
-- Elsa Schiaparelli -
Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
-- Emily Post -
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes -
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.
-- Frantz Fanon -
If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.
-- George Eliot -
It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.
-- George Eliot -
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.
-- H. L. Mencken -
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 -
Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.
-- Henry Adams -
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.
-- J.R. Ward -
A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.
-- John B. Keane -
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
-- John C. Calhoun -
It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter -
All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
-- Lionel Richie -
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.
-- Margaret Halsey -
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.
-- Marilyn French -
We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon her intellectual inferiority.
-- Paul Broca -
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
-- Peter Matthiessen -
Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.
-- Philip Wylie -
One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.
-- Pierre Daninos -
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
-- Samuel Johnson -
Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.
-- Sandra Bartky -
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.
-- Steven Wright -
I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.
-- Vanna Bonta -
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
-- William Gilbert -
The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
-- Yukio Mishima -
I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.
-- Kim Nam-joon -
Realize the complicated specials of what we call the "inferiority complex." In other words, what, Miss Thing, is so damn special about you to make you feel so specially inferior to any other jerk?
-- Perry Brass -
The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.
-- Stefan Heym -
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
-- Alexander Crummell -
We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles -
My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they actually are inferior and they secretly know it.
-- Gregory Heisler
