Superiority Quotes

397 Superiority quotes by 314 unique authors

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American.is… — Eric Hoffer
HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. — Ambrose Bierce
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature… — Bernard Berenson
The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty… — Paul Gauguin
Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful… — Bobby Knight
Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to strengthen… — Sha Zukang
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. — Baltasar Gracian
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do… — H P Lovecraft
Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others. — William Osler
What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each… — Napoleon Bonaparte
... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest any precedence in… — Pope Clement I
Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn. — Emily Dickinson
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the… — Saint Basil
Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight… — Frederick Lenz
Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love. — Frederick Lenz
Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun. — Frederick Lenz
It's very easy for us to be humble when no one else is around. There is no reason for us to demonstrate our superiority, because… — Frederick Lenz
To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority… — H. L. Mencken
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which… — Henry Adams
Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his… — Henry Adams
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar… — Fanny Kemble
There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity… — Bill Vaughan

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