Superior Quotes

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

Superior people never make long visits.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

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.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.