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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln

Labor, Higher, Fruit

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere

Best, Patience, Wise

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein

God, Power, Emotional

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Mind, Humble

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Philosophy, Moral, Modern

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.
Abraham Lincoln

Good, Business, Enough

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

Speech, Actions, Modest

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Society, After

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

Men, Fact, Ability

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

Good, Great, Teacher

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

Before, Action, Acts

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Confucius

Change, Person, Sun

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

Speech, Actions, Modest

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius

Common, Virtue, Comfort

The object of the superior man is truth.
Confucius

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius

Success, Makes, Interest

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Socrates

Woman, Made, Once

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
Aristotle

Mind, May, State

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism, Country, Others

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato

Single, Moment, Else

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller

Leadership, Work, Good

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.
Bob Dylan

Power, Real, Thought

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. Mencken

Men, Honor, Simply

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie

Patriotism, Nation, Nations

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.
Steven Biko

Human, Made, Same

Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
Erich Fromm

Person, Him, Sense

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H. L. Mencken

Christian, Christ, Rank

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon

Enemy, Revenge, Taking

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