Inferior Quotes

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?