Exceed Quotes - Page 9

A man must constantly exceed his level

Bruce Lee

Men, Levels, Sith

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body”, p.23, Tuttle Publishing

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Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.

Stephen Covey

Collaboration, Individual, Synergy

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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

Taken, Men, Suffering

"De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 23., 44 B.C..

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It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Civilization, Numbers, Nurse

Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Beauty, Earth, Natural

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But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.

George Berkeley

Mistake, Math, Understanding

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Work ethic must exceed the expectation level.

Tom Coughlin

Expectations, Work Ethic, Levels

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My dear young friends, I speak to you as one who stands on the edge of eternity. From that perspective, I see you as the choicest spirits ever placed on the earth. The promises in your generation's patriarchal blessings, if you are faithful, seem to exceed the promises in Sister Faust's blessing and in mine. ...I want you to know that I believe in you. I believe you can be in the world but not of the world.

James E. Faust

Believe, Blessing, Our Generation

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Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

Jean Racine

Misery

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I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities.

Emile Hirsch

Mean, Ideas, Sometimes

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We must learn to separate need from greed...We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings.

Thomas S. Monson

Greed, Needs, Earning

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If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

C. S. Lewis

Wise, Real, Giving

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To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

Robin Crow

Expectations, Firsts, Raises

Robin Crow (2010). “Evolve or Die: Seven Steps to Rethink the Way You Do Business”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons

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The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.

Thomas Aquinas

Pain, Fire, Hell

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It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

Roberta Williams

Work, Expectations, Seems

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The moment we change our thinking and start connecting with God, we start connecting with His plans, which always exceed our small plans.

Danny Gokey

God, Christian, Thinking

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The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Acceptance, Land, Violence

Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.103, Grove Press

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All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.

John Irving

People, Feelings, Moments

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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

Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge

Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.296, Northwestern University Press

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Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Dalai Lama

Love, Relationship, Spiritual

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People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

Dorothy Parker

Men, People, Endurance

Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.

J. K. Rowling

Expectations, Hermione, Exam

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You bring life to my world you give me strength to go on
And face life even when it seems all hopes gone
Labeled my wife but you truly exceed the title
You my future my happiness my heart my idol

Fat Joe

Song, Heart, Idols

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In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.

Nelson Mandela

Order, Expectations, Nations

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

Robert Breault

Ambition, Artist, Men

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