#excell

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. ↗

— David Hume

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People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#self-esteem #excellence

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

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The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds. ↗

— Mary Astell

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Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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