Quotes about Excellence

Geniuses' steps take you higher than talent's leaps.

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. Admiral Bill McRaven (Navy SEAL)

If we say of a boy or a man, "He is of good character," we mean that he does not do a great many things that are wrong, and we also mean that he does do a great many things which imply much effort of will and readiness to face what is disagreeable. He must not steal, he must not be intemperate, he must not be vicious in any way; he must not be mean or brutal; he must not bully the weak. In fact, he must refrain from whatever is evil. But besides refraining from evil, he must do good.