“ The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 1.6K
“ If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall. ”
- Bill Earle- Copy
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“ He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 838
“ Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excell. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
- 676
“ Look to it and consider, and deem notThat ever stubbornness excels discretion. ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
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“ To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself. ”
- Herbert A. Otto- Copy
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“ A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
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“ Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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“ Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. ”
- Franz Grillparzer- Copy
- 451
“ Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?… What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
- 2.9K
“ When ability exceeds ambition, or ambition exceeds ability, the likelihood of success is limited. ”
- Ralph Half- Copy
- 247
“ No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. ”
- Thomas C. Haliburton- Copy
- 287
“ The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 998
“ When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 3.2K
“ In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this. ”
- Willie Mays- Copy
- 1.3K
“ There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter? ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
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“ The vampire does appear in literature right at the time the Reformation is gaining ascendancy, and he certainly does represent the old Catholic Europe. I'm sure my own vampires are seen as embodying the magic of my childhood Catholicism. They have the power of saints… ”
- Anne Rice- Copy
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“ The bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out… ”
- James Thomson- Copy
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“ Tracker takes the pain out of spreadsheet collaboration. We are not out to replace Excel, which is a popular and very useful application. The idea is to make it more useful by turning it in to an application for tracking data. ”
- Ken Norton- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The West will not contain communism, it will transcend communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. ”
- Marcus Terentius Varro- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up. ”
- Harold R. McAlindon- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb. ”
- Joseph Joubert- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for? ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 4K
“ Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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