The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
The object of the superior man is truth.
A man's wealth may be superior to him.
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
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.
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
Harry Hart: [Quoting Ernest Hemingway] There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
When God introduced man to the angels, Satan became the first racist. Satan belonged to a race of beings called angels, man to a new race of beings called humans. In Satan’s mind, angels, particularly he himself, were far greater than mankind simpl...
No one man is superior to the game.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
