Quotes About Excellence

because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty

Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty, Meg.

That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

But it is nice to be praised and admired, and I can't help saying I like it, said Meg, looking half ashamed of the confession. That is perfectly natural, and quite harmless, if the liking does not become a passion, and lead one to do foolish or unmaidenly things. Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty, Meg.

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

I want to be great, or nothing.

talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Where Bill had squandered his considerable talents, John had succeeded on a scale that made Bill look cheap and tawdry.

America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.

Families stand at the center of our society. And every family has a personal stake in promoting excellence in education.

Marie Curie no fue sólo la primera mujer en recibir un premio Nobel y la única en recibir dos, sino también la primera en licenciarse en Ciencias en la Sorbona, la primera en doctorarse en Ciencias en Francia, la primera en tener una cátedra… Fue la primera en tantos frentes que resulta imposible enumerarlos. Una pionera absoluta. Un ser distinto.

Nesta época de esplendor da ópera, o público exige, principalmente, a excelência da voz e aceita todos os disparates, até mesmo os que contrariem a lógica mais elementar.

I follow the Law—the Most Excellent Law.

Se aprende más de un erudito apasionado que de un montón de ganapanes de ardua brillantez.

Men had been puffed up with pride by notions not a tithe as excellent and practicable.

Most of us simply do not possess the innate abilities necessary to ascend to the upper echelons of athletic, artistic, or musical excellence. But *all* of us, as human beings, do possess the innate abilities necessary to achieve excellence of ethical character --- excellence in the sense of improving our personal character to the point where we can do right and good things naturally and consistently.

after we polished our boots to the point that the sun extinguished itself out of envy

There was one who was great in his strength, and one who was great in his wisdom, and one who was great in hope, and one who was great in love;

There are handbooks for everything, and very soon education, all the world over, will consist in learning a greater or lesser number of comments by heart, and people will excel according to their capacity for singling out the various facts like a printer singling out the letters, but completely ignorant of the meaning of anything.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.