Inadequacy Quotes

114 Inadequacy quotes by 104 unique authors

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust… — Rowan Williams
Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a… — Anatoli Boukreev
I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented… — Madeleine L'Engle
When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let's park our minds in God's truth. — Lysa TerKeurst
One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of… — Anthony Fauci
When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them… — Austin Farrer
After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country. — Simon Le Bon
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence. — James L. Brooks
We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. .… — Desmond Tutu
Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be… — Peter Medawar
It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot… — Daniel Baldwin
Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain… — Katherine Dunn
All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal… — Jean Helion
Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment. — Robert Genn
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But… — Norman Vincent Peale
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip… — Karen Armstrong
I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being… — Antony Sher
In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about… — Saul Bellow
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a… — John Kenneth Galbraith
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling… — Marian Wright Edelman
My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that. — Paloma Faith
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. — Hubert H. Humphrey
There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a… — Alicia Keys
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. — Ken Thompson
A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto… — Ayelet Waldman

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