Quotes About Excellence

Nothing is so precious to a woman's heart as the glory and excellence of him she loves

To bestow on your fellow men is a Godlike attribute--So indeed it is and as such not one fit for mortality;--the giver, like Adam and Prometheus, must pay the penalty of rising above his nature by being the martyr of his own excellence.

Be a man, or be more than a man.

Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded—a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures.

A human being in perfection ought

There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.   —Nelson Mandela

Let your life be guided by greatness

there's nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

Any man who's afraid of hiring the best ability he can find, is a cheat who's in a business where he doesn't belong. To me—the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good.

He and I had always felt as if we were fellow survivors from some vanishing age or land, in the gibbering swamp of mediocrity around us.

It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man--almost rarer--who is great enough to see greatness and say so.

No importa que sólo unos pocos en cada generación comprendan y logren la realidad completa de la adecuada estatura humana y que el resto la traicione. Son esos pocos los que mueven al mundo y le dan su sentido a la vida, y son esos pocos a quienes siempre aspiré a dirigirme. El resto no me interesa; no es a mí o a El manantial a quien traicionarán: es a sus propias almas.   Ayn Rand Nueva

I don't blame our metallurgical department!" he said angrily. "I know that results of this kind are not a matter of any predictable time. But the public won't understand it. What, then, should we sacrifice? An excellent piece of smelting—or the last center of science left on earth, and the whole future of human knowledge? That is the alternative." She sat, her head down. After

Nada puede hacer que sea moral destruir a los mejores. Uno no puede ser castigado por ser bueno.

the only sin on earth was to do things badly.

more contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good.

beauty. Let's surpass them all! Let's throw their sweat in their face. Let's destroy them at one stroke. Let's be gods. Let's be ugly.

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

You can strive to be first in service, first in love.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." — Attributed to Aristotle

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

When you're given a brilliant child, you polish her and let her shine.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself the perfect is the enemy of the good.