#surpass

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#bloom #bring #conceive #eternal #express

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#hard #more #nothing #strong #submissive

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#despise #either #must #people #supervise

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#cannot #exaggerate #progress #recourse #surpass

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#everything #imitation #surpasses #truth

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#come #patriotism #some #surpass #tribal

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#awash #bodybuilding #chemistry #defying #mathematics

Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation. ↗

— Ron Kind

#china #debt #foreign #government #interests

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #compel #drive #endure #failure

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. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#heroism #others #remarkably #serve #sober