Quotes About Superiority

On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

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.

The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

I've dominated a majority of my opponents. Very few people I only win against. Most of the time it's pretty one-sided. That's success to me.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.

Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he is become their equal;

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal.

And now, As I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if I am asked how we should account for the unusual prosperity and growing strength of this nation, I would reply that they must be attributed to the superiority of their woman.

the European is to the other races of mankind, what man is to the lower animals;—he makes them subservient to his use; and when he cannot subdue, he destroys them.

This quote begins here. A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. This quote ends here.

we limit ourselves to normal cases of mutual influence, we find that those people are most capable of being influenced who are most amenable to reason and logic, those whose social feeling has been least distorted. On the contrary, those who thirst for superiority and desire domination are very difficult to influence. Observation teaches us this fact every day.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

Every man nurses the secret belief that were he God he could do the job much better.

So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.

I thought black people superior people. Not simply superior to white people, because even without thinking about it much, I assumed almost everyone was superior to them; but to everyone. Only white people, after all, would blow up a Sunday school class and grin for television over their victory, i.e. , the death of four small black girls.

It was difficult to maintain any sense of superiority in the face of his utter dependence on other people.

It is when they truly hate you, after all, that you know you have won. So she met the seething dislike with effortless superiority, paraded past with her shoulders back and chin high. If she was to be cast as the villain, so be it. They were always the most interesting characters anyway.

How dare you presume to be devoted to me, peasant? You're like a tick devoted to a tiger!

And the more shrivelled the man, the more swollen his pretensions must

The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.