We should not be astonished if in the cases where we see an inferiority complex, we find a superiority complex more or less hidden.
– Alfred Adler
An inferiority complex is when the ego is frustrated; whereas, humility is when the ego is rejected.
– Radhanath Swami
Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.
– Gloria Steinem
Dismissing another’s achievement is an ideal strategy for excusing your own failure.
– Alan Robert Neal
Inferiority complexes arise from our constant concern about what others think about us. We oftentimes find problems with ourselves based on if others find us good enough. This isn’t healthy thinking. Stop worrying so much about what others think about you. Only your opinion matters.
Inferiority complexes are rooted in the desire to be just like someone else. They make you want to be someone you’re not. If you try to be someone else, you aren’t being true to yourself. Just don’t try to be someone else. Be you.
The over-exaggeration of your flaw and the self-consciousness you develop because of it causes the feelings of inferiority. The inferiority is made up and in your head
Your perceived flaws do not control you. Even if you have a large chin, are overweight, or are bald, that doesn’t define you. That’s one small part of you. It only controls and defines you if you let it.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
– Henry Brooks Adams
Feelings of inferiority and superiority are the same. They both come from fear.
– Robert Anthony
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the water in the world can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside.. Don’t let inferiority and negativity get inside you
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
– Alvin Ailey
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
– Earl Warren
If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.
– Criss Jami
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
The only way that someone could be superior over you, is if you repeatedly convince yourself to believe so.
– Edmond Mbiaka
Don’t show your inferiority by climbing a stunted tree, show your superiority by climbing the longest and crooked one.
– Michael Bassey Johnson
Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won’t make me feel so inferior
– William Saroyan
Feeling inferior is complex; being superior is easy.
– Robert J. Braathe
Envy suggests inferiority.
– Wayne Gerard Trotman
Surround yourself with positive people.It is the only way to leave your shell of complexes.
I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
– Tom Petty
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
– Thomas Mann
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
– Henry C. Link
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and un-fulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.
– Alfred Adler
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
– Simone de Beauvoir
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
– Alfred Adler
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
– Alfred Adler
People say that every person plays the lead role in the movie of their own lives. I don’t. I play a side character even in my own life’s movie.
– Mrigank Kashyap