Excellence Quotes - Page 36

• Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

  Aristotle

  Honesty, Men, May

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• Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

  Narendra Modi

  Collective Effort, Individual Effort, India

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• Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but is an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while there exists equal justice to all and alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit

  Pericles

  Hands, Government, Justice

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• Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

  Epictetus

  Epictetus (2013). “The Enchiridion of Epictetus”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Poetry, Madness, Spite

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• ... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Success, Sake, Wells

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.145, Booklassic

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• A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

  Sid Caesar

  Hope, Evil, Wish

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• It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

  Horace Bushnell

  Love, Religion, Duty To God

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• A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Art, Accomplishment

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• Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Loneliness, Property, Mortals

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• The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.

  Julia Marlowe

  Art, Strong, Mean

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• It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.

  William H. Macy

  Character, People, Acting

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• Nutritional excellence is the only real fountain of youth.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Real, Youth, Fountain

  Joel Fuhrman, M.D. (2010). “Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right”, p.7, Macmillan

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• It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

  Frank Ocean

  Trying, Levels

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• Anything really well-made has the effect of making you want to do what you do-better. Abrams has always made very beautiful books. It's exciting to see this same excellence applied to the presentation of comics. Abrams ComicArts shows comics are stepping out of vaudeville and into Carnegie Hall-but the Marx Brothers will always be welcome!

  Jon J Muth

  Beautiful, Brother, Book

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• Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Christian, Attitude, Integrity

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• Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.

  Steven Pressfield

  Hero, Artist, Support

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• Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

  Arthur Desmond

  Wall, Men, Mind

  "Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.

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• We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Jobs, Children

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

  Roger Zelazny

  Powerful, Reading, Imagination

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• It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Men, Rose

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

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• We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Men, Rights, Issues

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• Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which, when the lime and straw are mixed with such sand, will cause it to crack as it dries on account of the great strength of the mixture. But river sand, though useless in "signinum" on account of its thinness, becomes perfectly solid in stucco when thoroughly worked by means of polishing instruments.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mean, Rivers, Causes

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter IV, Section 3,

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