Excellent quotes
207 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you."
"I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do."
"People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers."
"I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion."
"The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self."
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"He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance."
"The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is."
"Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent."
"Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments."
"O excellent! I love long life better than figs."
"You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself."
"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent."
"Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare."
"Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself."
"Excellent things are rare."
"What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying."
"Nothing excellent can be done without leisure."
"Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'"
"The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre"
"...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding."
"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."
"Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them."
"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
"The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it."
"Excellent warriors are not violent."
