There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
One that desires to excel
should endeavor in those things
that are in themselves most excellent.
- Epictetus
We may not always be aware of it, but we all create
and repeat affirmations constantly.
The problem is, we typically don't pay attention
to exactly what those affirmations are saying.
Often we go through the day giving ourselves
all sorts of contradictory, or even negative messages.
We may project confidence to the world around us,
while our inner dialogue says...
I hope this works.
I am so nervous about this.
I hope I don't blow it.
Affirmations are self fulfilling prophecies.
If we say, This is never going to work
... then chances are excellent it never will.
- John Assaraf
There is also something excellent in every audience,
the capacity of virtue.
They are ready to be beatified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
Excellence is not a destination to be arrived at,
but a path of continual attention and improvement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I constantly seek excellence
in all domains that truly matter to me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone can be passionate, but
it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a firm believer in the people.
If given the truth, they can be depended upon
to meet any national crisis.
The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln
What is real is beyond all reach.
- Julian Green
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon,
it will be an entire nation.
For all of us must work to put him there.
- John F. Kennedy
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
The real us is pure love, pure light
- don Miguel Ruiz
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals
relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship.
They will be loving to each other,
but not being possessive of each other.
They will be sharing with each other
all their joys and all their blessings,
but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating,
thinking of enslaving the other person.
- Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
You cannot lose your real treasure.
- Osho
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
America did not invent human rights.
In a very real sense, it is the other way around.
Human rights invented America.
- Jimmy Carter
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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