Excellence Quotes & Sayings
These excellence quotes and excellence sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection.The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. - Sallust [Caius Sallustius Crispus]
In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness. - Cornelius Tacitus
I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist. - Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress, for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. - William Hazlitt
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. - John W. Gardner
A sermon on a hat: 'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the hat. 'For how many men, we put it to your own experience, reader have made their way through the thronging crowds that beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of their hats'? The cock's all. - Douglas William Jerrold
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. (Maxims) - Publius [Publilius Syrus]
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. - Hesiod