Inadequacies Quotes

#1. Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

Monty Woolley

#2. Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Edward De Bono

#3. If my own inadequacies didn't already prove me puny, then these stars do.

Justin Sirois

#4. Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.

Blake Judd

#5. Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

Auberon Waugh

#6. Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU!

Leo Buscaglia

#7. Canning is a whole world of a thing to do. It requires that you get out of your head. It's a Zen thing. You cannot be wondering about your inadequacies and how they drove Bob off and be making jelly. You'll wind up with big, cylindrical jujubes.

Debby Bull

#8. Growing up during the Cold War, I remember the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. In primary school we were taught to 'duck-and-cover' for protection. But even as children hiding under wooden desks, we recognized the inadequacies of this strategy.

Mike Quigley

#9. Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies.

Glen Cook

#10. It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

Daniel Baldwin

#11. How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

Grace Metalious

#12. Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

Madeline Levine

#13. You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

Ram Kapoor

#14. An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Robert Greene

#16. However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

Spencer Bachus

#17. Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

Atul Gawande

#18. If you surround yourself with people that fill in your inadequacies then together you fulfill the world.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#19. If I can help one person realize their potential by removing fear and inadequacies from their mind, I am not only a success- I am a change agent.

Lasean Rinique

#20. The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.

Marie Kondo

#21. The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.

Greg Ginn

#22. When we face real people with eternal souls balanced between heaven and hell, the nobility of preaching both awes us and makes us more aware of our inadequacies (cf. 1 Cor. 2:3).

Bryan Chapell

#23. Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.

J.L. Austin

#24. History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

Julian Barnes

#25. We should seek after spiritual gifts. They can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary. They can compensate for our inadequacies and repair our imperfections.

Dallin H. Oaks

#26. No one has the power to deal with our inadequacies and insecurities but ourselves. No

Debra Fileta

#27. I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.

Antony Sher

#28. Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.

Earl Weaver

#29. One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'

Takeda Nobushige

#30. Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.

Brene Brown

#31. As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy ... I really tortured myself.

Mira Sorvino

#32. Without people around, furniture has nothing to do but bear witness to the structural inadequacies of the human body: How much padding, cushioning, embracing, enfolding, and supporting we had needed just to stumble about through our days!

Barbara Ehrenreich

#33. DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.

Barbara Sher

#34. Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

John C. Maxwell

#35. Like He did with Joshua, the Lord will meet your needs and cover your inadequacies with His power. There is no obstacle so big God can't help you overcome it. Not your finances. Not your schedule. Not your messy house. Not your unruly kids. Not your singleness.

Jennifer Maggio

#36. I don't actually have any accounts, because social networking has always felt like a popularity contest to me. A public record of my own inadequacies.

Stephanie Perkins

#37. God isn't looking for powerful individuals who are strong, independent, courageous and self-sufficient. Rather, God is seeking vulnerable individuals who have weaknesses, deficiencies, inadequacies and who are willing to stop relying on their own abilities.

Dana Arcuri

#38. Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#39. The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.

Tony Hoare

#40. Lloyd-Jones believed the man who is called to preach comes under a sobering humility. He believed that this person is overwhelmed with a deep sense of his own personal unworthiness for such a high and holy task and is often hesitant to move forward to preach for fear of his own inadequacies.

Steven J. Lawson

#41. My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

Paloma Faith

#42. We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses ... If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.

Desmond Tutu

#43. My ex - may he soon discover tiny worms have invaded his body and are slowly eating him alive - once told me God made men so perfect because He'd wanted to make up for the inadequacies of women.

Gena Showalter

#44. Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.

Gordon Dahlquist

#45. So I add frigid to the list. To that stupid mental inventory I try so hard not to keep. An increasingly large list of all my flaws. My inadequacies. My failures.

Jessica Park

#46. I am creating him out of my own inadequacies, you must remember that

James Salter

#47. Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?

Karen Finerman

#48. Questions about God's existence, self disclosure, saving action and almighty power reminded me of my inadequacies. For me the theo in theology had become little more than a question mark. I could confidently discuss philosophy, psychology and social change, but God made me uneasy.

Thomas C. Oden

#49. One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities.

CrimethInc.

#50. What almost no one understands is how every level of severity in this diagnosis is underpinned by shame. Which means we don't "fix it" by cutting people down to size and reminding folks of their inadequacies and smallness. Shame is more likely to be the cause of these behaviors, not the cure.

Brene Brown

#51. All the bullying instincts in her nature rose to the surface. It was not that she was basically unkind. It was because she was so frightened and unsure of herself she was harsh lest others learn her inadequacies: and refuse her authority.

Margaret Mitchell

#52. Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

Neil Welliver

#53. I used to hold you as my everything,
And so I built my castles in your lands,
But you proved to me your inadequacies,
With this, how will my castles stand?

Terrence Alonzo Craft

#54. If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#55. I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness,

Ann Patchett

#56. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs.

Pierre-Paul Grasse

#57. Angrier and angrier, that he had to do such things because men were filled with arrogant greed, because some wished to rule with neither the wit nor the self-knowledge to see their inadequacies - and how many of their people would die.

Greg Bear

#58. They talk like people, he thought, who have kept the huddled-up secrets of their guilts and inadequacies to themselves for a long time, only to discover that these things, when verbalized, were only life-sized after all.

Stephen King

#59. At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that poetry has some reach into reality itself, or you have to go silent.

Christian Wiman

#60. Rules are made to be broken, but hearts are broken to be made.
It is a big miracle to be loved "because" of your inadequacies, not "despite" them.
And nothing can be as fascinating as walking tall on the same road that once witnessed your fall.

Olaotan Fawehinmi