Quotes with excellent

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  • William Shakespeare How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Baruch Spinoza 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
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Wyndham Lewis I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Alexander the Great I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Anton Chekhov I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Buddha I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Alexander the Great I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    American actrice (1917 - 2016)
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  • Thornton Wilder I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Bea Arthur I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Robert Townsend If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Thomas J. Watson If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Margaret Oliphant It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Isaac D'Israeli It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
    Isaac D'Israeli
    British scholar and writer (1766 - 1848)
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  • John Ruskin It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Gore Vidal Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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