Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million guy sperm cells, each one wriggling in its own direction, totally confident it knows where it is going, to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.[Dave Barry] Quote:Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.[Aristotle] Quote:We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.[Aristotle] Quote:If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.[Colin Powell] Quote:Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company.[David Hume] Quote:Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. [Pearl Buck] Quote:In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. [Jane Austen] Quote:The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. [John F. Kennedy] Quote:An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. [Nicholas Chamfort] Quote:Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was? My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Strive for excellence, not perfection. [H. Jackson Brown Jr.] Quote:To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. [Aristotle] Quote:With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. [Aristotle] Quote:The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. [Euripides] Quote:It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. [Publilius Syrus] Quote:Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. [George F. Will] Quote:Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. [George F. Will] Quote:The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. [Sallust] Quote:I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. [Michael J. Fox] Quote:I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. [Michael J. Fox] Quote:The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. [Brendan Behan] Definitions of: cellDefinition: A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.Definition: A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. Definition: Any small cavity, or hollow place. Definition: The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. Definition: Same as Cella. Definition: A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery. Definition: One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed. |
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