12 Quotes About Excellence

The climax of God's happiness is the delight He takes in the echoes of His excellence in the praises of His people.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross and in the power of his resurrection.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.

Greatness is in the preparation, not in the performance.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Behold therefore thy God at work, and promise thyself that what he is about will be an excellent piece.

In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth for excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised, they will either seek to dismount his virtues, or, if they be like a clear light, they will stab him with a "but" of detraction.

So live that when you find yourself, you will still be qualified to be yourself.

If a task is worthy of our attention, it is worthy of our best.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.