Superiors Quotes

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.