Quotes about Excellence
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love championships. That's when I want to be at my best. I love those environments. It brings the best out of me.
— Jessica Ennis-Hill
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
— Joseph Addison
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
— Publilius Syrus
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
— Oscar Wilde
Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.
— Brian Tracy
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
— Aristotle
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
— Elbert Hubbard
The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.
— John Tillotson
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
— William Hazlitt
a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
— Charles Dickens
It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.
— Charles Spurgeon