Top 88 Not To Exceed Quotes
#1. (D) Write a political treatise - not to exceed 250,000 words or 500 sides, whichever is less - detailing your solution to stabilising relations in the region. Military force above brigade level is not permitted, nor is divine intervention. You may include diagrams.
Jonathan L. Howard
#3. I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
Og Mandino
#4. Don't wish the world demanded less of you. Rise up and exceed its standards.
A.D. Posey
#5. There are a lot of people who are successful and have a lot of money, but you can almost see their limitations because they have these walls around them. Harmony Korine exceeds those walls, and those are the types of people who go on to exceed people's expectations.
Riff Raff
#6. Our wants always exceed our resources, and we believe that's the source of our unhappiness. Not so. Never was. No wonder we always feel stressed out and inadequate; we never make enough money to afford what we tell ourselves we need.
Anonymous
#7. Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
Charles Lamb
#8. There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.
James Mangold
#9. Always let your reach exceed your grasp.
Og Mandino
#10. Exceed expectations" is such a lispy term. I hope that it never infiltrates the bedroom or sport.
Grant McLachlan
#11. Your level of success, will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become," I stopped in my tracks. This one philosophy was going to change my entire life.
Hal Elrod
#12. You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters! seemed
Scott Westerfeld
#13. Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#14. 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
#15. Work ethic must exceed the expectation level.
Tom Coughlin
#16. The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.
Eric Hirzel
#17. [In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.
Ray Kurzweil
#19. 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
#20. Initially, your vision will exceed your competency.
Andy Stanley
#21. Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.
Lance Secretan
#22. The costs of placing a four-year-old and an infant in child care exceed annual median rent payments in every state. Despite
Sheryl Sandberg
#23. Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. None of the children of men can attain so great glory, power, and dominion in this world, but that in their imaginations and desires they can infinitely exceed what they do enjoy, like him who wept that he had not another world to conquer. They
John Owen
#25. Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
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Juvenal
#26. Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don't take anything away. A relationship shouldn't impose limits - and if it does, then it's wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.
Ann Aguirre
#27. Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#28. Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.
Thomas Browne
#29. All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
James Madison
#30. Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!
Robert Browning
#32. He waited just a moment longer, giving them the opportunity to fill the space, to exceed expectation.
They did not. Adam had set the bar at precisely the height they could jump and no higher.
Maggie Stiefvater
#33. No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#34. To know someone, we must experience him, and that knowing will not exceed our self-knowledge - we cannot know someone else to a greater depth than we know ourselves.
Shepherd Hoodwin
#35. I dont regret anything. I am proud to try a challenge even if I do not exceed.
Gael Monfils
#36. The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions
Desmond Tutu
#37. Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything is a mystery. Neither truth alone is our solution, for our reality exists in plural
Jonah Lehrer
#38. Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
Arleigh Burke
#39. Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.
Howard Schultz
#40. Do not be afraid to try something new. The cost of playing it safe all the time could far exceed the cost of daring to change.
Linda El Awar
#41. We must learn to separate need from greed ... We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings.
Thomas S. Monson
#42. To be subjected to pain that threatens to exceed coping resources is not something that people choose.
David L. Conroy
#43. 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
#44. The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
E. O. Wilson
#46. Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
Derek Jacobi
#47. No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.
Li Keqiang
#48. Two of the things to look out for are that operational cash flows should match or be close to profit levels, and current assets should exceed current liabilities.
Matthew Kidman
#49. Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
Isaac Watts
#50. Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.
Harriet Lerner
#51. Well, the U.S. is running a current account deficit; we are creating lots of investment opportunities in the United States that exceed our own domestic savings rates, so the issue here is to encourage higher savings rates in the United States.
John W. Snow
#52. Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.
David Chang
#53. I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.
Guillermo Del Toro
#54. 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
#55. Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night.
Joe Maddon
#56. It's only when we are able to exceed our rigid interpretations, and we start defining love in it's totality, that we realize that love is everywhere
Julian Pencilliah
#57. If we want to set and enforce a limit on immigration, we have to be willing to say no to would-be immigrants who look a lot like our own ancestors, not because there's anything wrong with them, but simply because admitting them would exceed our legal limit.
Jan C. Ting
#58. From the creation learn to admire thy Lord! And if any of the things thou see exceed thy comprehension, and thou are not able to find the reason thereof, yet for this glorify the Creator, that the wisdom of these works surpass thine understanding.
Saint John Chrysostom
#59. He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible that his fortune might exceed his fancy; for an advantage always rises by surprise; and is almost always doubled by being unlooked for.
Jeremy Collier
#60. When expectations exceed reality, frustration is the result.
Jeffrey A. White
#61. According to the yoga tradition, each person is allotted a certain number of breaths, and after you exceed this number, your time on earth is finished. People who breathe hurriedly and shallowly use up their allotment of breaths quickly, but if you breathe slowly and consciously,
Larry Payne
#62. But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding ...
George Berkeley
#63. Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.
Jerzy Grotowski
#64. To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.
Robin Crow
#65. The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
Mason Cooley
#66. If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#67. The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.
Marv Levy
#68. When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.
Andy Stanley
#69. Listen, I've been pretty fortunate. And if I've been underrated, it's actually been something I've been able to work with; I can surprise people. It sets me up to exceed expectations, so I don't mind.
Brad Pitt
#70. God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#72. If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?
Ellen Galinsky
#74. In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.
Mary Ruefle
#75. The thing about cancer is that it can always exceed your worst expectations. There is something pornographic about cancer's ability to confound your imagination. Whatever new obscenity cancer comes up with to torment and torture you, it can always do worse tomorrow.
Tony Parsons
#76. The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
Aristotle.
#77. When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight.
Jack Welch
#78. The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.
Saib Tabrizi
#79. The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them - preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.
Richard Branson
#80. The Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweet; and nothing, I am told, can exceed the greedy relish with which they banquet for the first time upon this unbought luxury of the wilderness.
Washington Irving
#81. Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
Alain De Botton
#82. The world seems to me excruciatingly, almost painfully beautiful at times, and the goodness and kindness of people often exceed that which even I expect.
Lois W.
#83. Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because They're not efficient. (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.)
Brian Kernighan
#84. Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.
Edgar Wright
#85. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?
John Hersey
#86. I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
Linus Torvalds
#87. The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks ... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list ...
Tom Ridge
#88. Service heroes strive to exceed the customer's expectations.
Marilyn Suttle
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