Top 100 Quotes About Superiors
#1. A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#2. To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Benjamin Franklin
#3. The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.
Laozi
#4. In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours
Swami Vivekananda
#5. One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
Jonathan Swift
#6. Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
Muhammad Ali
#7. The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.
Camille Flammarion
#8. 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
#9. Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
Cato The Elder
#10. The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.
Doug Stanhope
#11. Maybe there was once a human who looked like you, and somewhere along the line you killed him and took his place. And your superiors don't know.
Philip K. Dick
#12. How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
John Muir
#13. Faith is not opposed to the mind. It's superior to the mind which is why the renewed mind enhances faith.
Bill Johnson
#14. And ultimately, when almost everything I did was controlled by the Superiors, by my teachers and by Paulo, I took what little control I could for myself and held onto it fiercely.
Lauren Nicolle Taylor
#15. Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
C.S. Lewis
#16. The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.
Ludwig Von Mises
#18. There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#19. There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.
Will Rogers
#20. There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.
Carlos P. Romulo
#21. It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#22. The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery in Kilnacrott and his Religious Superiors in the Norbertine Order.
Sean Brady
#23. If my superiors shall permit me to come home, I hope it will be soon; if they mean I should stay abroad, I am not able to say what I shall do, until I know in what capacity. One thing is certain, that I will not live long without my family.
John Adams
#24. It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.
Heinz Guderian
#25. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
George Washington
#26. The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
Ashley Montagu
#27. The silent workers get lost in the endless
darkness of the corporate world. Those
who work hard and constantly seek to
be visible to their superiors, those who
showcase their hard work, are the ones who
advance to positions of greater power and
responsibility.
Abhishek Ratna
#28. Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.
John Daly
#29. The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors.
Lao-Tzu
#31. On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
Victor LaValle
#32. Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
Peter F. Drucker
#33. Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.
Lyle Lovett
#34. A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.
Fanny Jackson Coppin
#35. The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.
H.G.Wells
#36. Superiors got all the good things in life. Commoners got what was left. Slaves got a beating if they complained.
Yuval Noah Harari
#37. Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
Wendell Phillips
#38. What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say so,irrespective of the views held by your superiors or subordinates and of consequences to yourself.
Sam Manekshaw
#39. Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.
Abraham Lincoln
#40. There can be no such thing as Superiority when We Are All One. A thing cannot be superior to itself. All things are One Thing, and there is nothing else. When you understand this, you begin experiencing life - and treating each other - in a new way.
Neale Donald Walsch
#41. When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.
Socrates
#42. I hope that you two young scholars may never lack superiors who are less intelligent than you; it is the best cure for pride.
Hermann Hesse
#43. In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.
Benjamin Franklin
#44. It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
Mahatma Gandhi
#45. Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.
Francis Quarles
#46. And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us ...
Max Ernst
#47. It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.
Josh Billings
#48. The people are difficult to govern because of the (excessive) agency of their superiors (in governing them).
Lao-Tzu
#49. Underlings should always be uncomfortable in the presence of their superiors," said the Emperor. "Don't you agree?
Paul S. Kemp
#50. The verses which he published in various reviews from time to time, and the neatly copied poems which he sent to his friends, superiors, and important personages, were neither much better nor much worse than thousands of other verse products of the day.
Ivo Andric
#51. Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
Mark Twain
#52. The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.
Saint Ignatius
#53. Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.
Elsa Maxwell
#54. And if I have always behaved like a pig, the fault lies not with me but with my superiors, who corrected me only on points of detail instead of showing me the essence of the system ...
Samuel Beckett
#55. In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.
Ludwig Von Mises
#56. Seek out your superiors and learn from them. Do not hide nor shy away from them for the sake of your pride for true pride is perceived, not in perceived skill, but in improvement.
Megan Webster
#58. That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth
Edmund Burke
#59. A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
Gregory Maguire
#62. He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man
John Le Carre
#63. Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.
Lord Chesterfield
#65. And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
Thucydides
#66. Whatever is cheap became cheap by treating us badly in the past, but is priced to deliver superior returns.
Robert D. Arnott
#67. Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
Seneca The Younger
#69. Every prisoner knows perfectly that he is a convict and a reprobate, and knows the distance which separates him from his superiors; but neither the branding irons nor chains will make him forget that he is a man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#70. Becoming is superior to being.
Paul Klee
#72. Outlive your superiors and the world is yours.
~ Beniago
R.A. Salvatore
#73. Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
Samuel Richardson
#75. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals- for the good of both.
Malcolm X
#76. She understood he became a monk in order to be above those who considered his superiors...it led him to God, to his childhood's faith which had never been destroyed in him...
Leo Tolstoy
#77. Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.
Ricky Gervais
#78. A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
Charlie Munger
#79. The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.
Alexander Kluge
#80. The invisible realm is superior and far more real than the visible realm..
John Paul Jackson
#81. When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.
Vincent De Paul
#84. All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates.
Swami Vivekananda
#85. An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.
Peter Drucker
#86. Nobody is "superior" to anybody else, only "different", that is all!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. Theoretically, great opportunities lay ahead of a young man of energy in that day and place, but Carl Miller had been incapable of establishing either with his superiors or his subordinates the reputation for approximate immutability which is essential to success in a hierarchic industry.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#88. The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#89. If you really are superior, you don't go around saying you're superior - unless you're Jewish.
Bonnie McFarlane
#90. The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#91. Hammurabi's Code, for example, established a pecking order of superiors, commoners and slaves. Superiors got all the good things in life. Commoners got what was left. Slaves got a beating if they complained. Despite
Yuval Noah Harari
#92. A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.
Benjamin Franklin
#93. Superior strength is a sword that manifests one's will.
Hiroyuki Takei
#94. The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression.
Walter J. Phillips
#95. Maybe that's what your machine calls infection - all the new information in my blood. Chatter. Tastes of other individuals. Peers. Superiors. Subordinates.
Greg Bear
#96. Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#97. In 1994 while on weekend manoeuvres in France, I commandeered a Chieftain tank without permission of my immediate superiors. I then attempted to invade Paris. However, en route I stopped off at Disneyland, or Eurodisney as it was then called, and was subsequently apprehended on Space Mountain.
Nick Frost
#98. Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
Dee Hock
#99. It is a dreadful truth, but it is a truth that cannot be concealed; in ability, in dexterity, in the distinctness of their views, the Jacobins are our superiors.
Edmund Burke
#100. If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?
James Lee Burke
