Top 100 Superior Quotes
#1. It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
Timothy Keller
#2. A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
#3. The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.
Confucius
#5. Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#6. Gates should have exceeded Washington as a military leader. He had long experience in a professional army and was more loved by his men. But Washington's character was superior to that of his rival, and it made him a great man, whereas Gates was merely a good soldier.
John Ferling
#8. If your enemy is superior, evade him
Sun Tzu
#9. Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#10. I work on my body to stay fit, but that does not make me superior to anyone. I am a forthright and hardworking girl.
Amisha Patel
#11. 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.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#12. Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time ...
Philip The Apostle
#13. Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.
Simon Blackburn
#14. Wilson shook his head. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the ghost of a superior 'Hm!'.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#15. The superior man limits his achievements.
Confucius
#16. It is thus quite certain that the constitution of the true religion, the ordinances of which are derived from God, must be incomparably superior to that of every other.
Rene Descartes
#17. I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
#19. I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.
Maria V. Snyder
#20. Polygamy was common [amongst the Navajo], but women had superior property rights, owning sheep and the houses. A man who deserted his family would be destitute -- a powerful incentive to stay married.
Timothy Egan
#21. Carleton Coon of the University of Pennsylvania suggested that some modern races have different sources of origin, implying that some of us come from superior stock to others.
Bill Bryson
#22. The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.
Confucius
#23. Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism ... [because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.
Price Pritchett
#24. It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.
Tullian Tchividjian
#25. War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
#26. It is true that men themselves made this world of nations ... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
Giambattista Vico
#27. Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights ...
Jeannette Rankin
#28. Never try to prove that you are right or superior. Let the Lord Himself fight for you
Sunday Adelaja
#29. My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.
Horton Foote
#30. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. we thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich.
Ernest Hemingway,
#32. So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs ...
William O'Neil
#33. The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Confucius
#34. There is no better or worse, inferior or superior. It's figuring out where you're meant to be and then getting there. This is true in every aspect of your life. If you fight to stay somewhere you don't belong, it will never be good and never get better.
Donna Augustine
#35. Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.
Saadi
#36. I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
Paul Watson
#37. It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.
Abraham Lincoln
#38. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett
#39. Jimmy Greaves and Kenny Dalglish had similar know-how, but Dalglish's knowledge and reading of the game was far superior. He was the most complete footballer in British soccer.
Jimmy Armfield
#40. The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.
Confucius
#41. The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.
{Cuvier on Joseph Banks}
Georges Cuvier
#42. The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
Jesse Jackson
#43. You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest and a great desire to help to raise you, to stimulate you into contact with your own superior inner resources.
Flower A. Newhouse
#44. Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#45. The reason we fear to go out after dark is not that we may be set upon by bands of evangelicals and forced to read the New Testament, but that we may be set upon by gangs of feral young people who have been taught that nothing is superior to their own needs or feelings.
Philip Yancey
#46. Japan would live and die by the race card - defining (and demonizing) America as "white" and thus Japan as a kindred but clearly superior "yellow" people.
Victor Davis Hanson
#47. Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
Michael Porter
#48. Chris Washburne is a superior hard bop player ...
Scott Yanow
#49. Women, real women do not have to prove anything to men. We already know we're the superior gender.
Christine Feehan
#50. A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.
Desmond Tutu
#51. The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
Confucius
#52. mad, were not my perception and reasonings so clear; and this state of mind appears to have brought with it superior knowledge on all subjects.
Novalis
#53. Fate and Faith are the two ends of a coin,Just like the siblings born from the womb of the same mother,Both are blessed with each's intellect,Neither one is Superior nor the other Inferior,For having Faith can change your Fate and Fate has its own way of changing your Faith
Abhishek Sundarraman
#54. For someone who's made it clear that her life is superior to every other student's at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#55. Many who think themselves infinitely superior to the aberrations of Nazism, and sincerely hate all manifestations, work at the same time for ideals whose realization would lead straight to the abhorred tyranny.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#56. Do your people have racists? People who believe they are inherently superior to all other types of intelligent people?" "We have some," Sorvalh said. "They're generally agreed to be idiots.
John Scalzi
#57. Judging requires that you think yourself superior to the one you judge.
Wm. Paul Young
#58. We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals.
Michael Fox
#59. In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.
Yehudi Menuhin
#60. Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
Georg Simmel
#61. In the course of an individual being's evolution we will practice each of these yogas. One path is not superior to another.
Frederick Lenz
#62. 463. - There is often more pride than goodness in our grief for our enemies' miseries; it is to show how superior we are to them, that we bestow on them the sign of our compassion.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#63. It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.
Why, Gillian, it's that very ability that makes us so superior.
Victoria Alexander
#64. It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.
Glenn Reynolds
#65. Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.
Arie De Geus
#66. They displayed a sophistication in warfare as good as anything he had ever encountered, and he had been trained by the best fighters in the universe then seasoned in battles where only the superior few survived.
Frank Herbert
#67. We are superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.
Ezra Taft Benson
#68. [The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
Samuel Johnson
#69. When superior people hear guidance, they carry it out diligently and ably. When mediocre people hear guidance, it seems vague and uncertain. When lesser people hear guidance, they laugh.
Lao-Tzu
#70. It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#71. The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.
Abdu'l- Baha
#72. The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.
Clement Greenberg
#73. It is most comfortable to be invisible, to observe life from a distance, at one with our own intoxicating superior thoughts. But comfort and isolation are not where the surprises are. They are not where hope is.
Anne Lamott
#74. If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put it in the power of a few desperate men to ruin the welfare of those who are much superior to them in strength, number, and interest.
Joseph Addison
#75. For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter.
Dada Bhagwan
#76. So, your plan is to murder a superior enemy army," said Tovar, "and then outrun the wind. I'm glad it's so simple.
Dan Wells
#77. On several occasions during the war he came to the relief of the Union army by means of his SUPERIOR MILITARY GENIUS.
Ulysses S. Grant
#78. The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
Baron De Montesquieu
#79. Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H.L. Mencken
#80. You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#81. Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.
Hans Morgenthau
#82. The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
Confucius
#83. If cooperation among governments were the superior concept for progress in Europe, I'd be onboard immediately. But the problem is that cooperation isn't working.
Martin Schulz
#84. True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Andre Gide
#85. You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.
Orson Scott Card
#86. We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
M.H. Abrams
#87. [In] NIVO 1, LLC v. Antunez, 217 Cal.App.4th Supp. 1 (2013) The Appellate Division of the Los Angeles Superior Court held that a tenant may not be evicted for failure to buy renter's insurance even if the lease requires purchasing insurance.
Madeline Howard
#88. History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir Putin
#89. Men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.
Dale Spender
#90. The rest of the gang aren't worth mentioning. But every one of them's got a story.
I catch myself writing 'not worth mentioning'. According to what criteria? No reason whatever to feel superior.
Jacques Yonnet
#91. I believe Islam is superior. And will not be surpassed. So I believe that the law of God is much superior to man-made law.
Anjem Choudary
#93. Natural law is superior as it allows for the pursuit of virtue genuinely initiated from within and themselves.
Patrick Mendis
#94. I've been totally replaced by people who are superior. I was doing, like, 15 different things. It's very gratifying to watch your job done better.
Jim McKelvey
#95. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#96. Wimps take life as it comes; superior people slap life up the side of the head until it gives them turf.
Jim Davis
#97. Feeling superior doesn't make one superior. Hubris does not humble others.
Guy R. McPherson
#98. Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.
Gao Xingjian
#99. Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#100. Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
Truman Capote
