quotes about Excellent
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Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
-- A. Y. Jackson -
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
-- Albert Camus -
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
-- Alexander the GreatSource : "Life of Alexander" by Plutarch, translated by John Dryden, 1895.
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Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
-- Arthur Smith -
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
-- Augustus Hare -
As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations.
-- Azim Premji -
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
-- Barbara Mertz -
How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
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Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
-- Ben Aaronovitch -
Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.
-- Bill Rodgers -
In the past, (GM) produced a lot of very excellent vehicles but somehow they didn't excite anybody,
-- Bob Lutz -
You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
-- Brian Tracy -
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I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
-- Cardinal Richelieu -
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.
-- Charles Stanley -
I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens… a helpful skill in Congress.
-- Chellie Pingree -
Ben Foster dealt with the purchase of my house and service was excellent. Excellent Service all round.
-- Chloe Smith -
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I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.
-- Christopher AtkinsSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.
-- Clement of Alexandria -
You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
-- D. A. Carson -
I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.
-- Danny Bonaduce -
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A good Traceur trains until he/she gets it right. An excellent Traceur trains until he/she cannot get it wrong.
-- David Belle -
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
-- David Hume -
Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.
-- David Oyelowo -
Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.
-- Debbi Fields -
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Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful
-- Deepak Chopra -
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
-- Earl Derr Biggers -
Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.
-- Eddie Izzard -
In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
-- Fannie Flagg -
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
-- Federico Fellini -
I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care.
-- Frank Vincent -
The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.
-- George du MaurierSource : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.157, Booklassic
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I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.
-- Harriet HarmanSource : "Abbott Will Give Male Rivals a Good Run, Says Harman". www.bbc.co.uk. June 13, 2010.
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It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.
-- Henry Fielding -
To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower,
-- Herb Kelleher -
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I have an excellent internal compass.
-- Hugh BonnevilleSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
-- Hugh Miller -
The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.
-- Ibn Ata Allah -
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
-- James A. Michener -
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The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.
-- James Frain -
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
-- Janet Erskine Stuart -
Dominants often make excellent submissives. They know the rules of the game.
-- Jay Wiseman -
And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
-- Jeff Lindsay -
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Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.
-- Jennifer Lee CarrellSource : Jennifer Lee Carrell (2007). “Interred with Their Bones”, p.57, Penguin
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No doubt that he will make an excellent senator.
-- Jeri RyanSource : "Ryan file a bombshell". www.chicagotribune.com. June 22, 2004.
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The system itself has the mark of cleverness and ingenuity.... When you manipulate the menu system, you feel as though you are at the helm of the future.... The Xbox probably has the most raw potential for excellent games
-- Jerry Holkins -
When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.
-- Joel Siegel -
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Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.
-- John C. Maxwell -
Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
-- John Cage -
You may believe you're an excellent rider," he called, "but there are a score of Temujai back there who actually are.
-- John Flanagan -
It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
-- John Norman -
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The modern painter…is an excellent couturier
-- Joris-Karl Huysmans -
Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!
-- Jose Raul Capablanca -
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
-- Joseph Joubert -
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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Family Guy is relentlessly excellent.
-- Katherine Parkinson -
I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.
-- Lauren DeStefano -
I think women are excellent social critics.
-- Laurie Anderson -
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
-- Lillian Hellman -
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Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.
-- Lita Ford -
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.
-- Margaret Oliphant -
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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
-- Mark Twain -
David Boreanaz is actually a very good director and he directed one of our episodes. Excellent director, knew exactly what he wanted. We never had long days with David. He was great, he knew exactly what he wanted and he's a fantastic director.
-- Michael Clarke -
Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
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The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.
-- Muhammad -
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
Home's the most excellent place of all.
-- Neil DiamondSource : Twitter post from Mar 01, 2009
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Only an excellent fabric can originate an excellent fashion
-- Nino Cerruti -
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Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
-- Os Guinness -
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
-- P. T. Barnum -
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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother
-- Patricia Highsmith -
I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there.
-- Patrick Rothfuss -
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
-- Philip SidneySource : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.11
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Great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.
-- Philippe KahnSource : "Borland Bought by Micro Focus for $75M" by Jennifer Pittman, www.santacruzsentinel.com. May 06, 2009.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
-- Quintilian -
I never forget,†Myrnin said in a choked whisper. “Certainly not with your nails in my throat. They’re quite an excellent mnemonic device.
-- Rachel Caine -
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.
-- Richard J. Foster -
My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
-- Rita Levi-MontalciniSource : "Nobel-winning biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini dies at 103" by Frances D'Emilio, www.nbcnews.com. December 30, 2012.
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Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!
-- Robert BoltSource : "Fictional character: King Henry VIII". "A Man for All Seasons", www.imdb.com. 1966.
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The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it.
-- Robin Sharma -
An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices.
-- Robin SharmaSource : FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Apr 13, 2014
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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
-- Russell Lynes -
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Maybe Ferrari's mirrors are excellent & have HD resolution
-- Sebastian Vettel -
An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.
-- Stanley Wolpert -
Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
-- Stella BensonSource : Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”
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If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines.
-- Steven T. Byington -