Quotes About Feeling Inadequate

#1. She's everything I'm not. I'm comfortable with who I am, what I am, but when you come up against someone like that, it's a kick-in-the-butt reminder of what you're never going to be, never going to have. I don't like feeling inadequate or stupid.

Nora Roberts

#2. Paul turned her to face him. I see a breathtaking woman scared to death to see how beautiful she actually is, a woman refusing to live because she has spent her entire life feeling inadequate in her appearance, a woman who has nothing to be ashamed of.

Abby Niles

#3. Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

Harriet Lerner

#4. Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.

Warren Farrell

#5. Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

David Deutsch

#6. We stood there for long time. Neither one of us said anything. I felt small and insignificant and inadequate. I hated feeling that way. I was going to stop feeling that way. I was going to stop.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#7. The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.

Barbara Holland

#8. Have any thoughts to others but don't be jealous to them.

Manroop Suthar

#9. Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.

Alfred Molina

#10. We might possess every technological resource ... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Adrienne Rich

#11. God has said not to create any accounts (karmic). Create accounts (only) if you have the knowledge of the future. Hey! If you want to start an account, then why don't you account for the possibility that you may die tomorrow?

Dada Bhagwan

#12. There is not one moment when that feeling of inadequate sorrow goes away. It just lessens and lessens, until it is mostly a memory of itself.

David Levithan

#13. If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book ... that's no fun at all.

Joe Satriani

#14. I think now that this obsession with identifying racism, which I saw so often among Somalis too, was really a comfort mechanism, to keep people from feeling personally inadequate and to externalize the causes of their unhappiness.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#15. New wave disco was coming to the fore then, and we were at a different point entirely. I like to listen to dance music, but I don't think I'm primarily a dance music writer.

Stan Ridgway

#16. When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

John Lydon

#17. I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

Jack Canfield

#18. Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?

Mary Shelley

#19. I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.

Anais Nin

#20. Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being satisfied with what you've done. And a sense that you are inadequate and a big phony. All useful for a writer. I'm always being edited by my inner nun.

George Saunders

#22. I'd become a woman who dreamed of yelling at people who didn't even know how infuriating I found them.

Ann Howard Creel

#23. I'm content with life, and I'm finally at that place where I feel relaxed and can really enjoy what's going on around me.

Christina Aguilera

#24. To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

E. O. Wilson