#inferiority

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#encourage #his #inferiority #pretend

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#courtship #dignity #empowerment #equality #feminism

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#inferiority #self-esteem #superiority #truth #truth-telling

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it. ↗

— Toba Beta

#inferiority #life #magnify #overconfidence #risk

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

#age #because #children #community #ever

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

— Barry Gibb

#ego #huge #i #inferiority #inferiority complex

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#fear #inferiority #thought

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

— Samuel Johnson

#been #conscious #inferiority #italy #man

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#discrimination #dominating #every #gnaws #inferiority

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever. ↗

— Ed Smith

#experienced #grandparents #growing #growing up #had