Aspire higher to attain excellence in whatever you do. But…

And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.

— Philip Sidney

“Excellence itself, aretē as the Greeks, virtus as the Romans would have called it, has always been assigned to the public realm where one…

— Hannah Arendt

“Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.”

— Samuel Johnson

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

— Samuel Johnson

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

— Hannah Arendt

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

— Demosthenes

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

— Mike Krzyzewski

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and…

— Nathaniel Smith

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

— Livy

“do not fear the one who is up but for the downward for he stands a better chance of getting up and the one…

— JojoQuotes

Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought.

— George Lois

What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface…

— Seth Shostak

When you have been lucky enough to move up the ladder, all you see, really, is the slide back down. You don't see the…

— Roy Hodgson

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

— Barry Gibb