Exceed
To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours.
To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.
To be more or greater; to be paramount.
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Exceed Quotations
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
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
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
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
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning Hamilton
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
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
Exceed Translations
exceed in Dutch is overtreffen, te boven gaan
exceed in Italian is eccedere, eccedere, oltrepassare, oltrepassare
exceed in Portuguese is exceda
exceed in Spanish is exceder, aventajar
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