A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself. - Georges Clémenceau
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
Know the limitations of your mind,and then excel them.Know the limitations of your heart,and then surpass them.Know the limitations of your soul,and then transcend them. - Matshona Dhiliwayo
Set goals,pursue them,achieve them,and then surpass them. - Matshona Dhliwayo
No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. - Jane Austen
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
...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - Muriel Barbery
Experiencing life with your whole heart will not only bring more of what you desire but often it will surpass what you could have imagined! - Heidi Reagan
Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance. - Shah Asad Rizvi
Revelation is God's way of telling humanity that he is afraid of their possibility; the possibility of one day being able to surpass even him. - Lionel Suggs
Leadership is the ability to help people and organizations surpass themselves. - Mark Sanborn
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. - Albert Einstein
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. - Queen Christina
Your shield must surpass your weaponry. - Toba Beta
A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected. - Zeena Schreck
As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try. - Donald Hall
poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. - Leonardo da Vinci
Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity. - Michael Bassey Johnson
It was a momentary laughter, in which our souls united. But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass, and that the effort to revive such happiness depletes it; that nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness. - André Gide
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