“All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.”

— 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)

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German philosopher 1788–1860

Tom Peters (1942) American writer on business management practices

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Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.”

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773) British politician

Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.”

Eric Hoffer book The True Believer

Section 9
The True Believer (1951), Part One: The Appeal of Mass Movements

“An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Quoted by George Bernard Shaw in a letter to Ellen Terry, 25 September 1896.
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“Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)

“Perfect contemplatives hear without astonishment all that the learned propound since they excel in a science transcending all understanding.”

John of St. Samson (1571–1636)

From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

“Time is an excellent medicine to reflect, to understand each other and above all to understand whom to share every day of your life with.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il tempo è un'ottima medicina per riflettere, per capirsi e soprattutto per capire con chi condividere ogni giorno della propria vita.
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“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

“She all the Goddesses excels.”

John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

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