#superior

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#admit #concern #does #first #himself

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#extraordinary #mankind #must #pretensions #race

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civilisation #colony #disprove #dumping #either

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#bent #breeding #caliber #good #good breeding

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to. ↗

— Janis Ian

#backward #feel #ignorant #just #need

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. ↗

— Confucius

#ability #distressed #fact #his #limitations

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. ↗

— Confucius

#action #acts #afterwards #before #his

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

— Marilyn French

#feel #inferior #men #must #seem

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#best #best way #convince #everyday #everything

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#between #difference #fairly #good #infinite