#ellen

Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#difficult #dust #dust-the-rust #ease #excellence

Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#fallout #forgiveness #forgiveness

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#inspirational #inspirational

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#breaking #conquer #consists #enemy #excellence

I have an excellent internal compass. ↗

— Hugh Bonneville

#excellent #i #internal

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#common #excellence #herd #ken #only

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#dictionaries #distraction #enough #excellent #impossible

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort. ↗

— Chanakya

#done #effort #excellent #him #intends

I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#been #big #both #ellen #fan

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#consequence #convinced #excellencies #few #few men