Quotes About Excellence

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

A man can be a hero in any profession

Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.