The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. — Fran Lebowitz
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. — Confucius
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. — David Letterman
Reaching beyond where you are is really important. — Martin Seligman
Work ethic must exceed the expectation level. — Tom Coughlin
To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer. — Dabo Swinney
Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful. — Epictetus
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement. — Kurt Lewin
Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand — Robin Sharma
It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great. — Kerri Strug
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? — Robert Browning
You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential. — Steve Garvey
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. — George S. Patton
Short Overreaching Quotes
A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic. — Russ Feingold
I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell. — George R. R. Martin
A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. — Raymond Chandler
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Overreaching Quotes
You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach. — Jon Stewart
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. — George Will
Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter. — Sheryl Sandberg
The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them. — Juan Ramon Jimenez
It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated. — William Rehnquist
I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child. — Michael Sandel
It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach. — Rick Scott
My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination. — Susan Wiggs
Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's. — Michael Sandel
We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony. — Lizz Winstead
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience. — Saint Francis de Sales
Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it. — Ella Baker
Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. It is the art of identifying and understanding customer needs and creating solutions that deliver satisfaction to the customers, profits to the producers and benefits for the stakeholders. — Philip Kotler
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. — Edmond de Goncourt
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true. — Valentino Rossi
God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you. — Charles Stanley
Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is. — G. I. Gurdjieff
People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that’s what team chemistry and leadership is all about. — Nick Saban
There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying. — Sarah Dessen
Brief Wise Quotes
Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn. — Randy Alcorn
He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man. — Euripides
I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep. — Bryan Procter
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement. — Euripides
Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise. — Poul Anderson
My Principles Quotes
People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. — Abdul Sattar Edhi
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal. — Julius Evola
To me non-violence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people, and, therefore, I am devoting all my energies towards the establishment of a society that should be based on its principles of truth and peace. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
My wife understood a crucial spiritual principle I'd yet to grasp. You can stand in the light. And you can set a positive example. But you simply cannot make someone change. — Rich Roll
Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny. — John Hancock
Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few. — Harry S. Truman
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. — Cardinal J. Newman
It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence. — Allan Sandage
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game. — Julia Gillard
The First Principle of the Nuremberg Code is: The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. — Robert W. Malone
Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri. — Eric Greitens
I think people who want to use genetic technologies to gain a competitive edge for their children are engaging in a kind of overreaching that could really undermine our appreciation of children as gifts for which we should be grateful and, instead, to view them as products or instruments that are there to be molded and directed. — Michael Sandel
Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life. — Henry Miller
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society. — Paul Ryan
Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves. — Francis Bond Head
Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head. — Anne Hathaway
[I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk Empire - that's another period of government overreach, but at least they use the amendment process! In real life, the executive branch, by violating the Constitution, is using statutes in place of constitutional amendments to diminish our liberty. — Edward Snowden
The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached. — Fareed Zakaria
We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values. — Steve Forbes
Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live. — John Burroughs
My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life - that is, to be happy. — Robert Baden-Powell
I've never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan - I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible. Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe. — Bjork
What [President Donald Trump] is doing is taking away the executive overreach that President [Barack] Obama did which we thought exceeded his powers. — Paul Ryan
The human condition is what it is. We can see beauty and wonder in the world, but we also face imminent death and uncertainty, and we often need to sidestep the idea of time and communicate with each other, not with words but with a sense of community and union. I don't want to make an overreaching statement, but I think that's the function of culture. — Justin Adams
If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations to a jury, it will have a deeply chilling effect on future whistleblowers working as I did to expose government abuse and overreach. It will chill speech. It will corrode the quality of our democracy. — Edward Snowden
I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn't pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we'll simply do it on our own. I think that's an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok. — Rand Paul
I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography. — Ben Affleck
But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich. — William L. Shirer
The main thing is, too many players feel like they're complete players when they're not, so rather than acknowledge their limitations and play within their ability, they overreach. — Tex Winter
Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to the equality of men and women and their relationship in marriage is totally different than redefining marriage. Here is the overreach of the judiciary. This, if allowed to stand without any congressional approval, without any kind of enabling legislation, is what Jefferson warned us about. That's judicial tyranny. — Mike Huckabee
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit. — Seneca
It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy. — Jesse Jackson
"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death." — Charles Dickens
If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves. — Neil Jordan
The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good. — Horace Mann
There may be a sense in the electorate, especially among independents that President Obama has overreached in some ways. — Michael Fullilove
What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else. — Carly Fiorina
The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service. — Laura Riding
It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate. — Mark Zandi
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society. — Ed Crane
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