Way Of A Superior Man Quotes

#1. No one man is superior to the game.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#2. Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Hippolyte Taine

#3. Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.

David Deida

#4. The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.

Confucius

#5. The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

Confucius

#6. As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#7. A saint is long past any desire for distinction; he is the only sort of superior man who has never been a superior person.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Sydney Smith

#9. Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

Winston S. Churchill

#10. The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

Gloria Steinem

#11. In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

Confucius

#12. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln

#13. The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

Thomas Malthus

#14. I never saw a man get superior so fast.

Louis L'Amour

#15. There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

Confucius

#16. He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man.

George Eliot

#17. The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.

Nelson Mandela