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Letter "S" » superiors
«I admire men of character, and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates, and that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is»
Author: Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf
(Army Officer)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
admire, character, deal, find out, judge, mostly, subordinated, subordinates, subordinating, superiors, where
«The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our 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.»
«That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Liberty,
People,
Security
| Keywords:
encroachment, encroachments, superiors, undeniable
«We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.»
«The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.»
«To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.»
«I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Almighty, convenient, cousin, distemper, distempered, distempers, equals, grandmother, incurable, nurse, ornament, scarce, superiors, sweetheart, sweethearts, wealthy, wealthy man, wet nurse
«Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any»
«A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
heat, inferiors, self control, superiors
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