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Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.
Understand you are neither inferior nor superior; you are just the best of who you are supposed to be. You have set standards for yourself and are ready to meet them.
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
10. Comparison is the root of all feelings of inferiority. The moment you begin examining other people's strengths against your most obvious weaknesses, your self-esteem starts to crumble!
You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.
It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?
Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex.
Three-quarters of the mental ingenuity and the mendacious boasting squandered ever since the world began by people who are only cheapened thereby, have been aimed at inferiors.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
In order to protest ourselves from being disliked, we question our abilities and downplay our achievements, especially in the presence of others. We put ourselves down before others can.
The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.
Someone can tell you all your life that you're inferior, but it doesn't matter until you accept it and allow for validation. Once validation takes place, it's then that the colonial malaise sets in like smallpox.
The inferiority of women is man-made.
Sometime people are disempowered because they subconsciously identify themselves by their temporary circumstances instead of connecting with their innate value and truth.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
In existence there is no inferiority complex anywhere, and as a corollary there is no superiority complex either.
Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
The roots of envy always run deeper and wider than the relationship in which it surfaces. In
Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.
Envy, is Pride's greatest Fear.
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.
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.
Release your need to feel superior by seeing the unfolding of Spirit in everyone. Don't assess others on the basis of their appearance, achievements, and possessions. It's an old saw, but nonetheless true: We are all equal in the eyes of God.
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
People put you down because you're above them.
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.
The timid weakness of individuals, the insecurity of groups, and the delusion of superiority generated perpetual fear, suspicion, dislike, and contempt of the different, the alien, and the strange.
HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
Belittling others is no pastime for those convinced of their own standing. There is terror behind haughtiness. It takes a punishing impression of our own inferiority to leave others feeling that they aren't good enough for us.
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.
It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.
The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.
Feeling inferior is complex; being superior is easy.
Superiority makes every man feel its equal. It is courtesy without condescension; affability without familiarity; self-sufficiency without selfishness; simplicity without snide. It weighs sixteen ounces to the pound without the package, and it doesn't need a four-colored label to make it go.
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
The reasoning behind anyone trying to make you feel less than you are is simple; you are more than they deserve.
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?
Tolerance is the assumption of superiority
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
Superiority - doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.
The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.
Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
The origins of your superiority complex lies less in how you can elevate your own self-worth & more in how you can dedicate your abilities to lower someone else's.
Whoever envies you is secretly convinced he is inferior to you.
illusory superiority." It is a phenomenon whereby people tend to overemphasize their positive qualities and underemphasize their negative qualities.
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.
We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.
You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.
It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.
Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.
It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it's the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.
Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
Envy! Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.
It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.
Success causes others to be jealous and hate.
So it is very helpful to begin to recognize this comparing mind, this conceit of "I'm better than" or "I'm worse than" someone else. When we do not see it clearly, it becomes the source of much suffering. It makes us feel separated and apart from others; we reinforce the contraction of self.
The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.
Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another, and yet we have these standards and beliefs, and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking, in almost all the societies of the world.
It helps to remember that people who possess the qualities we lack aren't any better than us. They weren't given a bigger piece of the awesome pie. They are just as flawed, but in different ways.
There can be no such thing as Superiority when We Are All One. A thing cannot be superior to itself. All things are One Thing, and there is nothing else. When you understand this, you begin experiencing life - and treating each other - in a new way.
We have acquired the habit of not being equal to ourselves.
From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
Never see yourself as being superior to others
Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior.
The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
In pride we consciously elevate our own standing and concerns and look down upon others as essentially inferior.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.
Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves.
My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.
[T]hat combination of inferior status and derogatory thought [is what] we call racism.
The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.
Don't let others make you feel inferior. If you start belittling yourself, others will follow.
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.
Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.
Never allow anyone to make you feel inferior. Be proud of who you are!
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men compel him to live;
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
Men conscious of inferiority are always trying to impose themselves on others, because they know that underneath they are cowards or cretins.
We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.
Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
Those who envy you inadvertently admit to being inferior to you.
We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.