Top 100 Quotes About Excellent
#1. If you become sick yourself, don't waste your vomit by sending it overboard. Vomit makes an excellent border guard. Puke on the edges of your territory.
Yann Martel
#2. What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.
Anonymous
#3. The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.
George Washington
#4. I'm sure nothing more exciting will happen beyond finding some Roman ruins beneath the pasture, Gunner predicted, an excellent example of why he would never be called psychic in any understanding of the word.
Katie MacAlister
#5. Janet who said excellent! in answer to everything and drank coffee from a pink mug that said Janet.
Donna Tartt
#6. There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joseph Joubert
#7. Confused? Confusion is good. It's an excellent place to learn something new from.
Henna Inam
#8. A man who relentlessly perspires
to be excellent evidently inspires
many with his intelligence and
elegance.
Anuj
#9. I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.
John Hodgman
#10. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Samuel Johnson
#11. I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was "mamaliga", and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call "impletata". (Mem.,get recipe for this also.)
Bram Stoker
#12. This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.
Harriet Harman
#13. You're passable at demo. You're excellent at hostage.
Leigh Bardugo
#14. Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege of the passions alone to bring them to light, and to direct us sometimes to surer and more excellent aims than conscious effort could.
Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
#15. I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.
Eric Greitens
#16. It is funny how no one seems to want my always excellent advice.
Anne Lamott
#17. When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.
Sandra Cisneros
#18. When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library - Caroline Bingley
Jane Austen
#19. But I perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty that you will not extort from me what I am willing to keep in.
William Shakespeare
#20. I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference.
Pele
#22. Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty
Louisa May Alcott
#23. In the past, (GM) produced a lot of very excellent vehicles but somehow they didn't excite anybody,
Bob Lutz
#24. At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.
Todd Skinner
#25. Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.
John Dryden
#26. MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.
Ridley Scott
#27. There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not suited to those whom God has called to the former, which is in itself more excellent.
Vincent De Paul
#28. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually watching television and surfing the internet are really excellent practise for being dead.
Chuck Palahniuk
#29. If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.
Gail Simmons
#30. Beth rolled her eyes, but inside, she didn't mind him being pushy at all. Her husband was going to take excellent care of her - whether or not she was carrying his child. And that was love right there.
J.R. Ward
#31. Let's be clear about one thing: a film about Katharine Hepburn is an excellent idea. She was one of the most fascinating, complex stars ever to grace a motion picture screen, and she deserves a full-scale, big-screen biographical treatment.
William J. Mann
#32. People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.
Bill Gates
#33. To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Vladimir Lenin
#35. She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker. I shall never forget her appearance this morning. She really looked almost wild.
Jane Austen
#36. 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
#37. She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying.
Holly Black
#38. I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.
Serena Williams
#39. 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
#40. A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
Oleg Cassini
#41. Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
Stella Benson
#42. While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior - don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
Henrik Ibsen
#43. He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume
#44. Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.
Cal Newport
#45. The Summit of the Americas is an excellent platform to raise awareness and secure commitments from heads of state and different sector leaders regarding Early Childhood Development.
Shakira
#46. Dare beyond your strength, hazard beyond your judgment, and in extremities, proceed in excellent hope. Bare the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
#47. Gravity keeps your body down from flying high. On the other hand, nothing can keep you down from outperforming yourself and from continually growing to become excellent.
Assegid Habtewold
#48. Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connected to everyone I disappear ... in being excellent you lose yourself. And when you're connected to everyone, that's the best thing that can happen.
Raj Patel
#49. When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.
Gautama Buddha
#50. Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
Jason Mraz
#52. Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.
Elizabeth George
#53. 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
#54. You might even be punished for performance that by any reasonable measure is truly excellent.
Steven Cohen
#55. There's an excellent movie we have on TCM called 'It Happened on Fifth Avenue,' which was originally going to be directed by Frank Capra ... but just before he was going to start working on it, he came across this story called 'The Greatest Gift.' And that turned into 'It's a Wonderful Life.'
Robert Osborne
#56. The scholarship of Christian academics isn't recognized as scholarship at all unless it conforms to the prevailing rules of scholarship in the academic disciplines. This forces Christian scholars to accommodate and blend in; even when their work is excellent, it isn't identified as Christian.
Greg Forster
#57. This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
{The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles Darwin, though he discussed Spencer's 'excellent expression' in a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace (Jul 1866).}
Herbert Spencer
#58. The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities.
Richard Carlson
#59. Not bad looking? He's damnably handsome. Brave in battle, smart as a whip. An excellent dancer, oh, and an even better shot.
Leigh Bardugo
#60. Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
Seneca The Younger
#61. The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.
Sir Fulke Greville
#62. Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.
Charles Caleb Colton
#63. D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!
-D'Artagnan
Alexandre Dumas
#64. I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.
Joe Shuster
#65. How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
Ben Horowitz
#66. Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward.
Lester Levenson
#67. History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.
Leo Tolstoy
#68. Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.
Jennifer Lee Carrell
#69. Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
Terence McKenna
#70. Bennie has light brown skin and excellent eyes, and he irons his hair in a Mohawk as shiny black as a virgin record.
Jennifer Egan
#71. Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.
John Selden
#72. The story of a marriage was an excellent way to fulfill the goal of discussing class without discussing class, and to tell an audience that they were upwardly mobile.
Jeanine Basinger
#73. Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#74. Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests].
Edward De Bono
#75. But then even if my atoms were a sin, so what? It was like Dad had said. As far as sins went, the sin of loving another human being made for a pretty damn excellent one.
Rose Christo
#76. 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
#77. When one's home has a really excellent computer capable of reaching other computers anywhere in the Galaxy, one scarcely needs to budge, you know.
Isaac Asimov
#78. Throughout my life, I have tried to share my philosophy that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. I don't diet or slave away in a gym - what I do is make excellent food choices.
Suzanne Somers
#79. If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.
Wallace D. Wattles
#80. The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients.
Joel Fuhrman
#81. I'm going to claim her so there's nothing to protect her from. I'll make her mine, fill her with my seed and it will plant there. She'll make an excellent mate and mother to my young."
-Brawn
Laurann Dohner
#83. [Wladimir] Klitschko is a different kettle of fish to Haye. He is a genuine man with an excellent team behind him and they are genuine fighting people.
Tyson Fury
#84. What an excellent father you have, girls!' said she, when the door was shut. 'Such joys are scarce since the good Lord saw fit to close the gates of Hell and doom the dead to walk amongst us.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#85. There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
Walter Scott
#86. Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts.
Anthony Bourdain
#87. Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day
Brian Tracy
#88. The city-state was the means by which the Greek consciously strove to make the life both of the community and of the individual more excellent than it was before.
H.D.F. Kitto
#89. It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very simply and neatly arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it.
Lewis Carroll
#90. The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait until you believe you are safe, sure to be without occasional foolish feelings, you've most likely waited too long.
Tom Peters
#91. In my own career, I have always tried to treat my colleagues with respect and kindness, whoever they are, and am proud to have developed and mentored the careers of many excellent young scientists who will be tackling tomorrow's biological problems long after I have left the scene.
Tim Hunt
#92. Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, excellent communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are precisely the qualities that business needs most to tap human potential.
Mary Cunningham Agee
#93. Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.
Leonard Nimoy
#94. The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
Questlove
#95. I am normal. I belong. I have a friend who can kick ass from a wheelchair. I live independently and get good grades. I'm an excellent lover.
Like I said. I'm awesome. I'm Emmet David Washington. Train Man. The best autistic Blues Brother on the block.
Heidi Cullinan
#96. Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.
Paul Rand
#97. Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.
Richard E. Byrd
#98. The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C.S. Lewis
#99. Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.
John Whiting
#100. I fared excellent on the zombie apocalypse assessment; however, I did not do so well on the surviving without your love questionnaire.
Amanda Mosher
