Compensation Quote by Alfred Adler

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…

— Alfred Adler

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted…

— Alfred Adler

“Psychology narrows the cause for personal unhappiness down to the person himself, and then he is stuck with himself. But we know that the…

— Ernest Becker

Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior.

— Harriet Lerner

Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that…

— Martha Beck

“Many psychologists assert that creating systems that cause feelings of powerlessness is one of the most damaging things we can do to fellow human…

— Gene Kim

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

— Eric Hoffer

“In a study of adult self-esteem, researchers found that people who are happy with themselves take defeat and explain it away, treating it as…

— David Niven

“The poorer your self-esteem and the lower your self-confidence, the more easily negative feelings can overwhelm ordinary good sense.”

— Julian Short

“people who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.”

— Tom Clancy

“There is a lot of research to suggest that we feel better overall as we are progressing toward our goals; we have a sense…

— Richard O'Connor

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

— Andre Gide