Inadequacy Quotes

114 Inadequacy quotes by 104 unique authors

In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which… — Auberon Waugh
Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to… — Auberon Waugh
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists… — Louis Agassiz
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss. — Bill Crawford
The life we live today - the environment in which we live - is not one of security - it's one of doubt, one of… — Reg Butler
At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use… — Christian Wiman
However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates… — Spencer Bachus
Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring… — Vanna Bonta
As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I… — Rick Warren
Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake. — Earl Weaver
The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency. — Alistair Begg
There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on… — Albert Einstein
The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful - we have… — Bruce C. Hafen
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to… — Ernst Junger
God is looking for imperfect men and women who have learned to walk in moment-by-momen t dependence on the Holy Spirit. Christians who have come… — Charles Stanley
The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul. — Donald Woods Winnicott
I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers.… — Ann Patchett
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism. — Karl Rahner
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies. — Robert Greene
Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy. — Jaggi Vasudev
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. — Benjamin Haydon
Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the… — Carl Jung
Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me. — Hugh Prather
The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out… — Francis Harold Cook

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