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. 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
#4. 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
#5. Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
Cato The Elder
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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.
#11. There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.
Carlos P. Romulo
#12. It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.
Heinz Guderian
#16. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
George Washington
#17. 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
#18. Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.
John Daly
#19. The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors.
Lao-Tzu
#20. 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
#21. Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
Peter F. Drucker
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Superiors got all the good things in life. Commoners got what was left. Slaves got a beating if they complained.
Yuval Noah Harari
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.
Benjamin Franklin
#29. 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
#30. The people are difficult to govern because of the (excessive) agency of their superiors (in governing them).
Lao-Tzu
#31. Underlings should always be uncomfortable in the presence of their superiors," said the Emperor. "Don't you agree?
Paul S. Kemp
#32. 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
#33. Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
Mark Twain
#34. The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.
Saint Ignatius
#35. Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.
Elsa Maxwell
#36. 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
#37. In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.
Ludwig Von Mises
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
Gregory Maguire
#42. 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
#43. Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.
Lord Chesterfield
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Outlive your superiors and the world is yours.
~ Beniago
R.A. Salvatore
#48. Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
Samuel Richardson
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.
Peter Drucker
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
Dee Hock
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. But developing relationships with coworkers - your peers, superiors, and subordinates - is incredibly important, perhaps even the most important thing you'll do at work, and this is completely dependent on your communication skills.
Scribendi
#66. these ideological cliques form in a government--or any other organization. Subordinates are always chosen for their agreement with the views of their superiors, and the extremists always get to the top and shove the moderates under or out.
H. Beam Piper
#67. The best part about holiday parties is the alcohol. You have a couple of drinks and you tell your coworkers and your superiors what you really think about them. And then the fun begins.
David Letterman
#68. In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell
#69. Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them ... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.
Ken Kesey
#70. the ancient saying that force outdoes inferiors while gentility outdoes superiors.
Liezi
#71. Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you"; "It is easier to be critical than correct"- avoid criticism about other officers, and never vent destructive criticism of your service, your unit, or your superiors.
Kenneth W. Estes
#72. Be careful! Never show your superiors that you are superior to them.
Paulo Coelho
#73. Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery. He
Ken Follett
#74. Like most people, I feel ambiguous guilt for my inferiors, ambiguous envy for my superiors, and mandatory low-spirits about the system itself.
Martin Amis
#75. It's not easy to be obedient if you suspect your superiors are asses.
Mary Doria Russell
#76. We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.
James F. Cooper
#77. there are times when a truly remarkable soldier must resort to unorthodox behavior, disobeying his superiors to gain the greater glory.
William Manchester
#78. A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
Albert Pike
#79. Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#80. Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.
Phyllis McGinley
#81. Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.
Vincent De Paul
#82. But if you grow up in a society which is rotten to the core, where you can cheerfully ignore the rules if you have power and status, where your superiors will screw you over if they happen to need a scapegoat . . . you wind up with very little respect for those rules.
Christopher G. Nuttall
#83. First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.
Confucius
#84. It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.
John Adams
#85. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.
William P. Alford
#86. The only thing which really seemed to pay off in life, if you went by Mary Pedersen's example, was sleeping with your superiors.
Jonas Eriksson
#87. There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize any-one. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Dale Carnegie
#88. When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
Confucius
#89. 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
#90. Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.
Joseph J. Ellis
#91. Stalin's Russia treated Jews as equals - not as superiors like the US. If Jewish nationalism were treated in England and the US as it was in Moscow in the days of Stalin, the citizens of Baghdad and Teheran, Basra and Ramallah would be able to sleep peacefully in their own homes.
Israel Shamir
#92. He had four of the characteristics of a superior man: - in his conduct of himself, he was humble; in serving his superiors, he was respectful; in nourishing the people, he was kind; in ordering the people, he was just.
Confucius
#93. I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.
Adolf Eichmann
#94. Treat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors. And whenever it strikes you how much power you have over your slave, let it also strike you that your own master has just as much power over you.
Seneca.
#95. True wisdom, which is not certain of anything in this world of contradictions, would have prevented him from attaining his present position. It would have alarmed his superiors, and done away with his chances of promotion.
Joseph Conrad
#96. The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken their sense of those rights; and by degrees, the people are brought to consider the soldiery not only as their protectors but as their superiors.
Alexander Hamilton
#97. Neither harsh reviews, the contempt of equals nor the indifference of superiors can affect those who have once tapped the great heart of suffering humanity and found out what a goldmine it is.
Cyril Connolly
#98. The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.
Henry Becque
#99. So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
Bayard Taylor
#100. Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
Confucius
