Top 100 Surpass'd Quotes
#1. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
John Dryden
#2. Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
Winston S. Churchill
#3. Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be.
Hugh B. Brown
#4. Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
Franz Grillparzer
#5. In the case of everything that belongs to the realm of sentiment, religion, politics, morality, the affections, and antipathies, etc. The most eminent men seldom surpass the standard of the most ordinary individuals.
Gustave Le Bon
#6. If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.
Brock Yates
#7. As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.
Otto Wallach
#8. The way to fly is to go straight up ... Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can't carry heavy loads efficiently.
Emile Berliner
#9. Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
Lord Byron
#10. Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#11. I know how you feel. But people can't surpass their true design. Our talents, our gifts. All programmed into us from the start. I know this because since birth ... I was made to destroy.
Charles Lee
#12. Many j women have done k excellently, but you surpass them all.
Anonymous
#13. Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and you'll find that it is harder to make bad writing good than to make good writing better.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own.
Emily Dickinson
#15. Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.
Thomas Merton
#16. 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 of essences and are coextensive with Being.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#17. China is now expected to surpass Japan as the 2nd richest country in the world. They could become the richest, but that's only if we pay them the money we owe them, and that's not going to happen.
Jay Leno
#18. Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.
Azar Nafisi
#19. Feelings are connection. They surpass time, and find their way back to the people you love.
Hiro Mashima
#20. The goal of a true family is not that their children follow in their footsteps, but that their children surpass them in all ways.
Andrew Vachss
#21. He will never let the trial surpass the strength He gives you, and at the very moment you think yourself overwhelmed by sorrow, He will lift you up and give you peace.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
#22. Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.
Jascha Heifetz
#23. 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 up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
Quintilian
#24. The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.
Denis Dutton
#25. I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass his previous fiction; sometimes the diaries express this in terms of a dejected judgment that the summit has already been reached.
Philip Kitcher
#26. 70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.
Marco Rubio
#28. The wisdom to be on the throne of one's life must surpass the wisdom of the one being ruled, otherwise I will squander the whole of my life in the most appalling ways. By virtue of that reality, I would be wise to get out of the chair and invite God to have a seat.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#29. My father is definitely not the kind of guy who'd place his children in key roles within his organization if he didn't think we could surpass the expectations he had for us.
Ivanka Trump
#30. Sounds of vernal showers
On the twinkling grass,
Rain awaken'd flowers,
All that ever was
Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#31. Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.
Hayao Miyazaki
#33. Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
Homer
#34. Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster ... they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
Christopher Lasch
#35. Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
Todd Gitlin
#36. 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 time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. The good and the bad things are part of life. Accept it. The bad is a learning process, you will surpass it. If you do you will be happy and it will be a good thing.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#38. Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.
Simon Le Bon
#39. One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standards that they keep surpassing year after year.
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. It is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#41. All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
Sallust
#42. I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.
Joe Lieberman
#43. We must keep our heart open in the very moment our instinct tells us to shut it down. When we transcend this critical point, we are finally and truly able to deepen our love and strengthen our bond.
Kate McGahan
#45. There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.
Irving Stone
#46. 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 and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.
Louis Orr
#47. There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.
George Henry Lewes
#48. There are sights that a person can witness that will not fit within the normal boundaries of consciousness or recognition. To put it simply, there are limits to the human mind that horror can surpass, and when it does, there is nothing but the void of madness waiting beyond.
Joe Hart
#49. A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau
#50. Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#51. To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
Benjamin Disraeli
#52. Smartass Disciple: Master, please show me the way to the enlightenment.
Master of Stupidity: Walk with me! [but I won't let you try to surpass me].
Toba Beta
#53. Our gods, if we choose to believe in them, must be forced to live up to ethics that far surpass our own human standards. If they fall short of the ethical conditions we place upon ourselves, what use are they to us - except to rationalize our own failures?
Stifyn Emrys
#54. Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice ... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
Michel De Montaigne
#56. How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Maimonides
#57. In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.
Greg Louganis
#58. You best believe that I often tend to surpass what the rest achieve.
Drake
#59. The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation ... surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
#60. I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.
Michael Jackson
#61. It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.
I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.
Albert Einstein
#62. Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must be exercised, before the powers of reason and fancy can be expanded: nor may the artist hope to equal or surpass, till he has learned to imitate, the works of his predecessors.
Edward Gibbon
#63. There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.
Herman Kahn
#64. You can't change anything unless you can discard part of yourself too. To surpass monsters, you must be willing to abandon your humanity
- Armin Arlet
Hajime Isayama
#65. The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.
John Muir
#66. The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
Blaise Pascal
#67. The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.
Ernst Mach
#68. When you innovate,
expect to make mistakes.
When you don't innovate,
expect your competitors to surpass you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#69. 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
#70. Don't stop after you reach your goals; aim to surpass them!
Jen Selinsky
#71. Friendships between races, Ewing, can never surpass the affection between a loyal gun-dog & its master.
David Mitchell
#72. The only way of living acceptably to God was not to surpass worldly morality in monastic asceticism, but solely through the fulfillment of the obligations imposed upon the individual by his position in the world. That was his calling.
Max Weber
#73. 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 foreknowledge.
Sun Tzu
#74. The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.
Ludwig Von Mises
#75. Hire people who are smarter than you are - whose talents surpass yours - and give them opportunities for growth. It's the smart thing to do and it is a sign of high personal humility.
Bruna Martinuzzi
#76. Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled ... yes ... the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.
Therese Of Lisieux
#77. A wise man's questions surpass the answers of the fool, but the silence of the enlightened is divine. Meditation is the key.
J. Gabriel Gates
#78. Whenever I'm feeling a bit down, I always visit the local children's hospital. Knowing that those cancer-kids wont be able to live long enough to surpass me in fame just warms my heart, you know?
Zach Braff
#79. Humans are reeds of straw who think. Reeds of straw who know. Reeds of straw who choose. Reeds of straw who love. Reeds of straw who willingly surpass themselves.
James Carroll
#80. Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#82. Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffer
#83. As Henry Moore carved
or modelled his sculpture every day,
he strove to surpass Donatello
4. and failed, but woke the next morning
elated for another try.
Donald Hall
#84. what year did a single typical desktop computer surpass the combined processing power of humanity? 1994.
Randall Munroe
#85. The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.
Auguste Rodin
#86. My cruel fate hath warr'd with me in vain
Life, glory, worth, and all unmeasur'd skill
Beauty and grace, themselves in me fulfill
That many I surpass, and to the best attain.
Benvenuto Cellini
#87. 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 and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 20 consecutive years as number, one as I did.
Garry Kasparov
#88. Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.
Henry David Thoreau
#89. Make no mistake:
Your salary is held to the same standards your grades were held to in the educational system, where you couldn't surpass a 100 no matter how hard you worked or how intelligent you were.
Carlos Roche
#90. I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? All
Friedrich Nietzsche
#91. No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
Jane Austen
#92. 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 impel him to surpass the human condition.
Gaston Bachelard
#93. Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.
D.H. Lawrence
#94. We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong ... So what we humans birth might surpass without oppressing us.
Odysseas Elytis
#95. Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.
Mikhail Bakunin
#96. You have to surpass the levels of success that you have already achieved, and that's the challenge. But, it's a welcome challenge. I appreciate it because it brings the best out of me.
T.I.
#97. It is the last painting that I want to do, but I want to surpass myself in it. I am putting into it the experience of my 65 years and I do not want to touch a paintbrush again.
Jacques-Louis David
#98. As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
Huston Smith
#99. Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales.
Nancy Dunnan
#100. Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.
Elizabeth Kostova