Surpass Quotes
137 quotes by 124 authors
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others…
— Arthur Ashe
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid,…
— Jane Campion
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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
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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is…
— Sun Tzu
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come…
— Quintilian
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You best believe that I often tend to surpass what the rest achieve.
— Drake
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Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Meditation is the art of transforming madness into Buddhahood. Meditation is the art of taking you beyond logic and yet keeping your sanity intact. Meditation…
— Rajneesh
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We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We…
— Richard Baxter
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A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.
— Cyril of Jerusalem
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...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.
— John G. Kemeny
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Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules…
— Garry Kasparov
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social…
— Peter Singer
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God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways…
— Pope Francis
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The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.
— Alan Loy McGinnis
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Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain…
— Louis Orr
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Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position
— Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.
— Thomas Haden Church
Who Wrote These Surpass Quotes
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