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«True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.»
Author: Arthur Ashe
(Activist, Tennis Player)
| About:
Heroism
| Keywords:
cost, heroism, remarkably, serve, sober, sobered, soberest, sobering, sobers, sober up, surpass, surpassed, surpassing, The Urge, undramatic, urge
«It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.»
Author: David Joseph Schwartz
| Keywords:
beyond, doers, harbor, harbored, harbors, invariably, leader, observe, respect, second, second best, study, surpass, surpassed, surpassing, The Second, worship, worshipping
«A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence»
Author: Howard Eves
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
discomforting, discomforts, formal, manipulator, surpassed, surpasses, surpassing
«Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
dying, maintain, occupied, occupying, perpetuated, perpetuating, surpassed, surpassing
«The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
achievement, approval, constant, of your own, splendid, striving, surpass, surpassed, surpassing, with approval, worthy
«We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed»
Author: Bible
| About:
God
| Keywords:
abandoned, clay, crushed, hard pressed, jars, jars of clay, perplex, perplexed, perplexing, persecuted, pressed, press down, strike hard, surpassing
«One need not be a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a house; /The brain has corridors surpassing / Material place.»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
| Keywords:
chamber, chambering, corridor, corridors, haunted, surpassing
«Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
creature, strives, surpass, surpassed, surpassing, yearns
«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.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
achievements, conquer, enlightened, enlightening, foreknowledge, general, ordinary, prince, surpass, surpassed, surpassing, The Enemy
«Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.»
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