Top 25 Excellent Quotes of 207 - Page 2

But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.

Clement of Alexandria

Toil, Scripture, Excellent

Clement of Alexandria (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Clement of Alexandria (Illustrated)”, p.1025, Delphi Classics

A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

Benjamin Watson

Heart, Excellent Work, Effort

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

Baruch Spinoza

Excellent, Difficult

When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.

Richard J. Foster

Things In Life, Problem, Excellent

Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

Nathan Myhrvold

Want, Excellent, Predictions

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

James F. Cooper

Fire, Journalism, Excellent

"The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

Earl Nightingale

Attitude, World, Excellent

Earl Nightingale (1969). “This is Earl Nightingale”, Doubleday Books

In the past, (GM) produced a lot of very excellent vehicles but somehow they didn't excite anybody.

Bob Lutz

Past, Excellent, Vehicle

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

Richard E. Byrd

Solitude, Habit, Excellent

Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.139, Island Press

Excellent things are rare.

Plato

Excellence, Excellent

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

Mark Twain

Passion, Abstinence, Excellent