“ Look to it and consider, and deem notThat ever stubbornness excels discretion. ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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
- 1.4K
“ 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
- 3.1K
“ Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 1K
“ Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The proper way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you. ”
- Alexandre Dumas- Copy
- 1.2K
“ When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall. ”
- Paul Harvey- Copy
- 2K
“ If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap. ”
- Glen Buck- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one… the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 3.3K
“ A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
- 54
“ Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves — to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than before. ”
- Stewart B. Johnson- Copy
- 2.2K
“ One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
- 602
“ How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. ”
- Mary Kay Ash- Copy
- 468
“ The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
- 2K
“ Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. ”
- John Sheffield- Copy
- 1.6K
“ When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. ”
- Walter Russell- Copy
- 2.5K
“ If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall. ”
- Bill Earle- Copy
- 3K
“ There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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