superiority

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

No two men can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - the best brain.

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn from him.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men--true nobility is being superior to your former self.

When my external environment is clouded in doubt and despair . . . when the tempests of destruction are making my dreams of success tremble like the topmost spar of a helpless ship-when the skies seem to hold the closing ruin of all my fondest hopes, my mind, superior amid the outrages of this material world, rests upon the solid!, immovable foundation of Faith. There is nothing in myself, but all is in my Master.