“God didn't create you to be average. You were created to excel You have everything”
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day
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Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
"Miscellaneous Thoughts" in The Poems of Samuel Butler, Volume 2, Press of C. Whittingham, 1822, p. 269
"Fragments", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?”
Tom Peters (1942) American writer on business management practices
Source: The Little Big Things: 163 Ways To Pursue Excellence (2010), p. 9.
“Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
Context: Lightning hits!
Quality! Virtue! Dharma! That is what the Sophists were teaching! Not ethical relativism. Not pristine "virtue." But aretê. Excellence. Dharma! Before the Church of Reason. Before substance. Before form. Before mind and matter. Before dialectic itself. Quality had been absolute. Those first teachers of the Western world were teaching Quality, and the medium they had chosen was that of rhetoric.
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
J. R. D. Tata (1904–1993) Indian businessman
His Biographers remark quoted in “Believing in Perfection” in New India Digest
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
The last sentence is a quotation of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)
Context: Would that all excellent books were foundlings, without father or mother, that so it might be, we could glorify them, without including their ostensible authors. Nor would any true man take exception to this; — least of all, he who writes, — "When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses itself in the enjoyment of the reality."
Arthur Schopenhauer book The World as Will and Representation
E. Payne, trans., vol. 2, p. 230
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
“One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece