Superiors Quotes - Page 19

• 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

  Distance, Men, Three

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.206

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• Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

  Confucius

  Blow, Government, Wind

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.

  Edward Bok

  Magazines, Today, Made

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• I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.

  Catherine Hicks

  Believe, Way, Quiet

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• The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources against a decisive opportunity.

  William Cohen

  Successful, Opportunity, Problem

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• The truth is, however, that every religion form is superior to the others in a particular respect, and it is this characteristic that in fact indicates the sufficient reason for the existence of that form.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Facts, Truth Is, Reason

  "The Transcendent Unity of Religions". Book by Frithjof Schuon, 1953.

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• One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Knowing, Understanding, Way

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.

  Carlisle Floyd

  America, Democracy, Levels

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• Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats. But not when it guillontines whoever is individual, superior, or just different.

  Peter Viereck

  Government, Democracy, Trying

  Peter Viereck (1950). “Conservatism Revisited”, p.72, Transaction Publishers

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• The only people who don’t love apps are pundits who don’t understand that apps aren’t really in opposition to the open Internet. They’re just superior clients to open Internet services.

  John Gruber

  People, Clients, Internet

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• Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.

  Michael Foley

  Men, Islands, Two

  Michael Foley (2012). “Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Order, Differences

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.23, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Achievement, Machines, Favors

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

  Confucius

  Men, Want, Ability

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• The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.

  Confucius

  Men, Earnest, Superior Man

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Opportunity, Men, Good Man

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

  Roger Babson

  Successful, Men, Differences

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• Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Lying, Stupid

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.247

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• My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

  Marianne Moore

  Father, Flower, Glasses

  "Silence" l. 1 (1935)

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• When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

  Charles Dickens

  Faith, Men, Moral

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.539

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• Men are superior to women. For one thing, men can urinate from a speeding car.

  Will Durst

  Women, Car, Speeding

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• There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

  Confucius

  Wise, Men, Bravery

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• You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.

  David Deida

  Strong, Heart, Men

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Jealousy, Blessing, Knowing

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• Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also through envy, envying our glory, our happiness. Why do we envy the happiness and the goods of others? Because we are proud; we should like to be the sole possessors of talents, riches, of the esteem and love of all the world! We hate our equals, because they are our equals; our inferiors, from the fear that they may equal us; our superiors, because they are above us.

  John Vianney

  Children, Hate, Pride

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