Quotes About Excellence

To Sachin, the man we all want to be.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

The best of men are men at best

The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

A man is no better than he has to be.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

Great men should not have great faults.

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

There is no country that has the best men.

Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

A Christian is the highest style of man.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.