Quotes About Excellence

Only great men have great faults.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. Always do more than is required of you. If a man has done his best, what else is there?

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

I am still the fastest man on earth.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.