Excellent Quotes

• An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Men

  Quoted in George Bernard Shaw, Letter to Ellen Terry, 25 Sept. 1896 See Wilde 39

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• Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Funny, Time, Goal

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• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christmas

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• I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Crafts, Brilliant Ideas

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• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Atheist, People

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• Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Nature

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Excellence, Improvement

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 11, 2014

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• Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Honesty

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• All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Inspirational, Perfection, Excellence

  Ethics pt. 5 (1677) (translation by Edwin Curley)

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• We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Mediocrity, Association

  Charles Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Mary Lamb (1971). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Letters, 1796-1820”

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• Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

  Earl Derr Biggers

  Shepherds, Dinner, Brilliant Ideas

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• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 22, 2016

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• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

  Francis Bacon

  Happiness, Beauty, Art

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Beauty'

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• None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Accomplishment, Achievement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2664, Delphi Classics

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• I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

  Alexander the Great

  Knowledge, Dominion

  "Life of Alexander" by Plutarch, translated by John Dryden, 1895.

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• Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Fighting, Iodine, Firsts

  "Anatoly Karpov speaks his mind". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

  Lactantius

  Teacher, Philosopher, Speak

  Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.19, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

  Enid Nemy

  Glasses, Office, Legends

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• Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves

  Francois Fenelon

  Children, Forgiving, Defects

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• It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

  John Wilkins

  Men, Giving, Vex

  John Wilkins (1802). “The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins, Late Lord Bishop of Chester: To which is Prefix'd the Author's Life, and an Account of His Works; in Two Volumes”, p.134

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• Today, bilateral relations with Britain are excellent, with cooperation in many areas and both countries continuing to work on strengthening these ties.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Country, Ties, Today

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• There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

  Walter Scott

  Character, Self, Excellence

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• A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.

  Mike Lowry

  Air, Tree, Cleaning

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• I think women are excellent social critics.

  Laurie Anderson

  Thinking, Social, Critics

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• My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors

  Pola Negri

  Hard Work, Training, Actresses

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