Quotes about Excellence

How detestable, I ask you, is this madness: that man, finding God in his body and soul a hundred times, on this very pretense of excellence denies that there is a God?

Now God's image is the perfect excellence of human nature which shone in Adam before his defection, but was subsequently so vitiated and almost blotted out that nothing remains after the ruin except what is confused, mutilated, and disease-ridden. Therefore in some part it now is manifest in the elect, in so far as they have been reborn in the spirit; but it will attain its full splendor in heaven.

And this is the main difference between the gospel and philosophy: for though the philosophers speak excellently and with great judgment on  the subject of morals, yet whatever excellency shines forth in their precepts, it is, as it were, a beautiful superstructure without a foundation; for by omitting principles, they offer a mutilated doctrine, like a body without a head.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

Great men can't be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.