Superior Quotes

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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling… — Laozi
Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without… — Paul of the Cross
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that. — Mark Twain
Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free. — Pat Buchanan
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future. — Maria Montessori
All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal. — Baltasar Gracian
The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him. — Confucius
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a… — Henry David Thoreau
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior… — Alexander Pope
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and… — Samuel Johnson
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of… — Ambrose Bierce
Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch. — L. Ron Hubbard
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. — Samuel Johnson
I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. — Oren Lyons
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine
The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks. — Confucius
Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things.… — Richard Koch
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and… — Florence Nightingale
The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen. — Confucius
The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony. — Confucius
Becoming is superior to being. — Paul Klee
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed. — Confucius
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior. — George Bernard Shaw

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