#excel

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#excellent #farmers #food #goods #land

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#because #excel #genius #people #profession

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential. ↗

— Brad Henry

#excellence #expectations #full #only #our

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#excel #first #life #lives #man

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it. ↗

— Hesiod

#close #easily #excellence #front #get

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#creating #creative #equality #everything #excellence

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#elegance #excellent #fondness #had #his

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#always #anybody #around #beyond #could

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#doors #education #excel #experience #how