Quotes About Excellence

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.

All great men are partially inspired.

A man who relentlessly perspires to be excellent evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

That man is best Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then-do not worry.

Man is something to be surpassed.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

If we fill the palace with vulgar people and all kinds of junk, how can the Lord and His Court occupy it? When such a crowd is there it would be a great thing if He were to remain for even a short time.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. Admiral Bill McRaven (Navy SEAL)

The price of being the best is having to be the best.

Impeccability is to act to the very best of your ability upon whatever knowledge happens to be available to you at any given moment.

[Upon being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer:] Which would you rather be—a victor in the Olympic games, or the announcer of the victor?

If you're a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

Given the gulf between the excellence of Italian design, educated by the beauties of the past, and the unremitting tastelessness of British modernity, it is not a coincidence that Italy has one of the largest trading surpluses of any nation, while Britain has one of the largest deficits.

The best politics for any president is to be a good president.