Excellence Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labour and his leisure; his mind…

— L.P. Jacks

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and…

— James A. Michener

The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living.…

— Confucius

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

— Charles Evans Hughes

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he…

— James Allen

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

— Laurence Olivier

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.

— Jose Ferrer

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

— William Barclay

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

— Henry David Thoreau