Meaningful Quotes. Thoughtful Insights. Helpful Tools.
Advanced Search Options

Quotes about Excellence

Millions around the world see Formula One as the pinnacle of motorsport, and I firmly believe that we should do whatever it takes to keep this accolade. Traction control, automatic gear changes, and launch control isn't my definition of the 'pinnacle of motorsport.'
- Niki Lauda
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love championships. That's when I want to be at my best. I love those environments. It brings the best out of me.
- Jessica Ennis-Hill
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
- Joseph Addison
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.
- Publilius Syrus
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
- Oscar Wilde
Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.
- Brian Tracy
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
- Aristotle
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
- Elbert Hubbard
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.
- John Tillotson
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
- William Hazlitt