Quotes about Excellence

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

Do not think, Oh, that I were delivered from all these afflictions and troubles here in this world! If you were, then you would have more ease yourself, but this is a way of honoring God, and manifesting the excellence of grace here, when you are in this conflict of temptation, which God shall not have from you in Heaven.

It is but one side of a Christian to endeavor to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavor to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.

But godliness with contentment is great gain' (v.6)—there is the glory and excellence of it; as if to suggest that godliness were not gain except contentment be with it.

They which run in a race run all, but one receives the crown. " But of us on the other hand it is said: " So run that you may obtain. " [ 1 Corinthians 9: 24 ] Our master of the games is not grudging; he does not give the palm to one and disgrace another. His wish is that all his athletes may alike win garlands.

It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.

I don't have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well. — Thomas Hudson

How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.

You will become a lighthouse of personal growth and power, and by your example and leadership, you will prevent many a worthy man from crashing his life upon the rocks of mediocrity.

If you want to become a person that others want to be around, you must always hold your life to the very highest standard.

But a true friend holds you to a higher standard. A true friend brings out the best in you.