Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes About Excellence

Quotes about: Excellence

• Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Mean, Men, Excellence

• We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Success, Men

• The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Adversity, Men, Class

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, p. 15, 1929.

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