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Quotes about Superiority

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.
- Thomas Paine
Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.
- CS Lewis
Faith is not opposed to the mind. It's superior to the mind which is why the renewed mind enhances faith.
- Bill Johnson
so to add what wants in the female sex, the more to draw his love, and render me more equal, and perhaps, a thing not undesirable, sometime superior: for inferior, who is free?
- John Milton
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
- Mark Twain
A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
One bright star is better than a thousand dull moons.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
- Henry David Thoreau
the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.
- Lao Tzu
Her father, cheering her, showed a compassionate superiority to this woman's weakness, which was wonderful to see.
- Charles Dickens
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.