Definition of Surpass

Surpass

To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.

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Surpass Quotations

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.
Sun Tzu

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

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

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

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Denis Waitley

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffer

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Ovid

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Maimonides

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau

There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.
Herman Kahn

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

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

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.
Thomas Haden Church

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.
Ezra Stiles

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.
Joe Lieberman

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

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.
Greg Louganis

Honestly achieved results surpass all others.
Michael Diamond

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Surpass Translations

surpass in Dutch is overtroeven, overtreffen
surpass in French is surpasser, surpassent, surpassez, surpassons
surpass in Latin is vinco vici victum, praesto, supero
surpass in Spanish is sobrepujar, aventajar

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