Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
This was very exciting. I'd never had two boys get into a fight over me before. The fact that one of the boys was my stepbrother, however, and held about as much romantic appeal for me as Max, the family dog, somewhat dampened my enthusiasm. And Michael wasn't much of a catch, either, when you actually thought about it, being a potential murderer and all. Oh, why did I have to have such a couple of losers fighting over me? Why couldn't Matt Damon and Ben Affleck fight over me? Now that would be truly excellent.
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes.