(1264 quotes found)
“Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning”
Hesiod
“To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”
Sun Tzu
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
Baruch Spinoza
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
Pearl S. Buck
“A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.”
Joseph Addison
“In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.”
Jane Austen
“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.”
Michael J. Fox
“Excellence always sells”
Earl Nightingale
“The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them”
Aristotle
“A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.”
Kahlil Gibran
