Quotes about Excellence

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

Whatever you Do — Do it Well — to the Finish.

I am a big fan of Meryl Streep.

You just go out and do the best that you can. I think people feel that, and they embrace it, and it's a part of what makes Metallica special.

Every time, the mindset I get when I get on the floor is that I'm the best player on the floor.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

To the corruptions of christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he never claimed any other.

When humility delivers a man from attachment to his own works and his own reputation, he discovers that perfect joy is possible only when we have completely forgotten ourselves. And it is only when we pay no more attention to our own deeds and our own reputation and our own excellence that we are at last completely free to serve God in perfection for His own sake alone.

They knew a good building would praise God better than a bad one, even if the bad one were covered all over with official symbols of praise.

The Man-of-Sin is the irreligious and anti-religious and anti-Messianic subject par excellence.