Quotes about Excellence
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
- Ayn Rand
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,Dead perfection, no more.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. Let your soul be filled with a sense of the excellence of Christ.
- Alistair Begg
One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
- Dan Quinn
You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.
- Reba McEntire
We are going to help the young talented athletes become world champions.
- Caster Semenya
Where Christ's Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.
- Richard Sibbes
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward."18
- Rick Warren
Passion drives perfection. The highest achievers in any field are those who do it because of passion, not duty or profit.
- Rick Warren
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
- Robert Frost
We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could
- Robert Frost