Doe Quote by Philip Sidney Download Open image “Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.” — Philip Sidney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Excellence Extraordinary Please
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
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Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve… — Plato Copy Share Image
Excellence is not perfection but essentially a desire to be strong in the Lord and for the Lord. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Excellence is a Kingdom value, and is not to be confused with perfectionism, which is a counterfeit and comes from the religious spirit. One… — Lance Wallnau Copy Share Image
“Parents and schools are teaching children how not to think, but how to be good little groupthinkers and people of faith, how to be… — David Sinclair Copy Share Image
Excellence isn't something that You can just Turn On and Off Whenever you need It. It's A Habit, That's rooted in Attitude and Effects… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Stella, the only planet of my light, Light of my life, and life of my desire, Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
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Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
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