Exceeds Quotes

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach.
This is possible but not attractive.
- Fran Lebowitz

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give,
or that it exceeds your province.
- Lord Mountbatten

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers,
but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
- Saint Stephen

A superior man is modest in his speech,
but exceeds in his actions.
- Confucius

It's a market economy.
Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply,
so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.
- Michael Gartner

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy,
the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
- Amartya Sen

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S.
investment in China and Japan put together.
- John Bruton

For as one star another far exceeds,
So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
- Robert Greene

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal
immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
- John Linder

The supply of government exceeds demand.
- Lewis H. Lapham

Thank the Gods!
My misery exceeds all my hopes!
- Jean Racine

If I were a girl, I'd despair.
The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
- Robert Graves

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.
It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing exceeds like excess.
- Al Jourgensen

When your outgo exceeds your income,
the upshot may be your downfall.
- Paul Harvey

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly...
When knowledge exceeds a certain limit,
it leads to exploitation.
- Abu Bakr

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which
the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds
the velvet bean in potential value.
This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop
when planted relatively late.
- David F. Houston

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

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public
ought to exceed the benefits to the company.
When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.
- John Kasich

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains.
War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
- Charles Krauthammer

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation
and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending,
which far exceed those of the Clinton era.
- Jim Cooper

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
- Isaac Watts

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is
not of much use to his subordinates.
- Arleigh Burke

The time you spend grieving over a man should never
exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.
- Rita Rudner

However many blessings we expect from God,
His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
- John Calvin

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp.
Or what's a heaven for?
- Robert Browning

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching -
is that you can connect with an individual or a group,
and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
- Mike Krzyzewski

In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet
will exceed data and voice traffic combined.
- Bob Metcalfe

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

Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader,
who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.
- Lance Secretan

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means,
and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the
pain that must precede the victory.
- Ted W. Engstrom

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

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed,
including war, more than I do, but it is still harder
to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian
states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
- Vladimir Nabokov

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

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body,
and of the animal body before it was human.
The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination,
as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
- John Desmond Bernal

How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights
of two men? In what possible way can the rights of
three men absorb the rights of two men,
and make them as if they had never existed.
- Auberon Herbert

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

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself,
but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
- William Gurnall

It has become appallingly obvious that
our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded
it and gone over into international politics.
- Kate Millett

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
- Lord Mountbatten

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority
or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without
a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.
- Pete du Pont

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations
as a revolutionary spring of information,
news, and ideas.
It is essential that we keep that spring flowing.
We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.
- Chris Cannon

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound,
which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments
can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
- Joseph Butler

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory,
which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of
the undergraduate student body.
It was an experiment to see how high we could bring
their level of understanding,
and it exceeded all of my expectations.
- Amar Bose

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times
has of course so much exceeded all expectations that
any suggestion that there may be some limits to it
is bound to arouse suspicion.
- Friedrich August von Hayek

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day;
wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
- Elbert Hubbard

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
- William Hazlitt

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
- M. Scott Peck

The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.
- Howard Staunton

The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years.
By year's end, 21 States across America will have a
minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.
- Sherwood Boehlert

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing,
that's certain, but I was born without it,
and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
- Mary Wortley Montagu

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see
the natural forces which will enable us to fly from
continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.
- Simon Newcomb

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations
is to know those expectations.
- Roy H. Williams

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward;
it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the
good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit,
or getting parked in the wrong place.
- Helen Rowland

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days.
There are now Eleven States barely represented.
This tardiness in the States or their Delegates,
besides retarding the most important Business makes
it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.
- William Whipple

Remember that in every single case in history the process
of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness.
Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your
path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence
on full opportunities for your powers.
- Franz Boas

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself,
of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is,
truths which have only recently begun to be seen in
Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
- Sri Aurobindo

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you,
In a word, to be the idol of one's idol,
Is exceeding the limit of human joy;
It is stealing fire from heaven.
- Delphine de Girardin

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)

The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

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