#excel

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#alternatives #always #between #bring #characteristic

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#excellence #improve #offer #quality #unlimited

Many people who excel are self-taught. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#many #people #self-taught #who

Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#foreign #ideals #lies #native #use

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection? ↗

— Thomas Mann

#eternity #excellence #nothingness #perfection #sea

When the actions becomes frequent than the words, success becomes heavier than the dreams. Do more, say less. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#actions #aim-high #dream-big #excellence #frequent

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. ↗

— John Lubbock

#books #earth #ever #excellent #fields

After the woman left, Gran, staring out back at the Zebra Forest, said to me, 'I'm a liar, I'll admit. But I pride myself on being a really good liar. That's part of my educational philosophy, too, Annie B. Mark that down. Lesson one: If you're going to do something, make sure to do it with excellence. ↗

— Adina Rishe Gewirtz

#excellence #learning #lying #education

Multiply your potentials with your plans and it will be equal to your purpose of existence. Your potentials are your seeds of greatness. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#achievements #achievers #big-dreams #dare-to-win #dream-big

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better. ↗

— Bohdi Sanders

#excellence #good-books #happin #inspirational #inspirational-life