Quotes About Exceptionalism

Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

It is one of the foundational pillars of Abraham Lincoln—and of America itself. We're not simply a country of ideas; we're a country of ideals. What makes America exceptional aren't our weapons or our might. It's our principles and our continuing fight to live up to them. Faced with darkness, we must reach for the light.

Someday daughters will be trained just as sons by their parents to assume leadership positions. There are the exceptions today where a daughter assumes leadership over a state or corporation, but those are still exceptions today. A shame since women have overtaken men in being the dominant consumers and decision makers in the family. - Strong by Kailin Gow on Raising a Strong Woman Leader

Le génie est un péché contre la masse.

According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion.

You are the ONLY you there is, you have a purpose, you are not just a biomass

The widely disseminated picture of our human exceptionalism is grounded in the assertion that we possess a unique form of intelligence due to our unique, hypertrophic brain.

It is easy to be average. It takes no endeavor at all to be like everybody else.

The United States deserves nothing but love and adoration and gold medals left and right and peace prizes left and right, things we never get.

America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.

There are very few LeBron James and Kobe Bryants.

I am not like other men, and the ordinary laws of morality and rules of propriety do not apply to me," Napoleon vaunted.

There we were, a small bunch of rather bright and fortunate young people, thinking ourselves somehow special and exceptional, but really very naive.

Exemplarele "f?r? de pereche" ale omenirii, asemni lui Moise, Siddartha, Confucius, Socrate sau Isus, care f?cuser? din comandamentul "F? ca mine!" calea de urmat, erau, prin chiar natura lor excep?ional?, neimitabile. Toate preceptele lor au ridicat prea sus ?tacheta de om.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Young people in college - many living away from their parents for the first time in their lives - are particularly vulnerable to the leftist propaganda campaign designed to turn them away from supporting president Trump and turning them away from believing in American exceptionalism.

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

The fact is that everything I've done, no one else could do. I don't want to be cocky or arrogant or think I'm the best, but what I've tried to do all those years was to show I was different from the others. And that's not my opinion, but everyone's.

I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.

Either we're all ordinary, or else none of us is ordinary.

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

You're his friend, Jack. Why can't you leave him alone? 'Because it's his bad luck to be the best. Because he doesn't think like other people. Somehow he never got in a rut.

The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism rather than of the grace from which he benefited.