“We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.” MenLifeSuccessCommonDemandExcellenceIntelligenceFormerExcellentLatterBrilliant IdeasCommon ManService Culture Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.” WantLifeGivingDesireGrowthPersonal GrowthInvestingMaking MoneyExcellentCorrelation Author:Ray Dalio
“It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.” LifeEarthChristianGloryAimIllBelieverChristian LifeVainExcellentHolinessTestimonyBoastBrethrenBraggingDeluded Author:Charles Spurgeon
“As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.” LifeLittlesScienceGrowsRaceGrowing UpTeachingTaughtIntellectualExcellentScruplesIntellectual LifeQueries Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.