Quotes: Inferiority

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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Alfred Adler

Austrian psychotherapist (1870-1937)

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Alfred Adler

Austrian psychotherapist (1870-1937)

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist (1883-1955)

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he’s just as good as everybody else.

John B. Keane

Irish playwright, novelist and essayist

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Alfred Adler

Austrian psychotherapist (1870-1937)

We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

Henri Bergson

French philosopher (1859-1941)

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

Barry Gibb

British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Alvin Ailey

African-American dancer, choreographer and activist

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Samuel Johnson

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Alfred Adler

Austrian psychotherapist (1870-1937)

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