Superiors Quotes

• A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties

  Confucius

  Men, Anxiety, Superior Man

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• It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Travesty, Inferiors

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humble, Humility, Modesty

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.68, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

  Don Shula

  Wrestling, Men, Inferiority

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• The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Doe, Proud

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

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• Defense is superior to opulence.

  Adam Smith

  Opulence, Defense, Economy

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• The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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• The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Money, Men, White Man

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• Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Sunset, Appreciate, Departed

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• One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

  Voltaire

  Simple, Enlightenment, Ends

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• The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.

  Laozi

  Peace, Struggle, Successful

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• If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

  Francis Quarles

  Graves, Having Patience, Inferiors

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• He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

  Edmund Burke

  Advice, Understanding, Levels

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• I think that the desire to be cruel and to hurt (with words because any other way might be dangerous to ourself) is part of human nature. Parties are battles (most parties), a conversation is a duel (often). Everybody's trying to hurt first, to get in the dig that will make him or her feel superior, feel triumph.

  Jean Rhys

  Hurt, Party, Thinking

  Jean Rhys, Francis Wyndham, Diana Melly (1984). “The letters of Jean Rhys”, Viking Adult

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• Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior.

  Margaret Mead

  Running, War, Thinking

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

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• All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Needs, Feels

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.65, Penguin

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• It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Grateful, People, Able

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Family and a Fortune”, p.104, A&C Black

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• It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Virtue, Admirer

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• Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

  Plutarch

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Men, Matter

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.2

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• There is no such thing as a 'superior' or 'inferior' culture, there are only various cultural patterns which make up this beautiful, multicolored mosaic.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Beautiful, Mosaics, Culture

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• I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

  Ethel Waters

  Jobs, Judging, Outsiders

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• To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Government, Cities, Destroying

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