Superior Quotes

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. (Confucius)
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. View quote
Confucius
What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others. View quote
Confucius
Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and I can learn from him. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. View quote
William Arthur Ward
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. View quote
Hippolyte Taine
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. (William Butler Yeats)
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. View quote
William Hazlitt
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. View quote
James Frazer
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. View quote
Gore Vidal
Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. View quote
Samuel Adams
Superior people never make long visits. View quote
Marianne Moore
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. View quote
Samuel Richardson
By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy But in passing over it, he is superior. (Francis Bacon)
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. View quote
Sophia Loren
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. View quote
Molière
Where does the family start It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found. View quote
Winston Churchill