“ A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed — I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ”
- Georges Clemenceau- Copy
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“ He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ 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
- 2.7K
“ Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still. ”
- Isaac Watts- Copy
- 2.2K
“ When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success. ”
- Cullen Hightower- Copy
- 444
“ Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. ”
- Franz Grillparzer- Copy
- 353
“ Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 62
“ People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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
- 441
“ 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
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“ She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. ”
- Faith Sullivan- Copy
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“ The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. ”
- Vince Lombardi- Copy
- 102
“ My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss. ”
- Sir Edward Dyer- Copy
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“ Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are. ”
- Nancy Lopez- Copy
- 519
“ My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible. ”
- Josephine demott Robinson- Copy
- 176
“ The will to excel and the will to win, they endure. They are more important than any events that occasion them. ”
- Vince Lombardi- Copy
- 3.6K
“ We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
- 347
“ Every one excels in something in which another fails. In excessive argument, truth is lost. ”
- Publilius Syrus- Copy
- 3.1K
“ How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 1.9K
“ How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 3.4K
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