Excellence Can Be Obtained Quotes & Sayings

Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war. — George S. Patton

Do not run away, it is cowardice. — Swami Vivekananda

I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained. — Washington Allston

[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one. — Plutarch

If music modulates our feelings, so does food; and all the fine cuisines of the world are based on that knowledge. The — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Can you hide what you were? Every moment of every day, could you pretend to be something else? Someone else? Could you stand spending every day worried that you were going to hurt someone if you knew there was an alternative? — Kathleen Peacock

Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained. — James Loeb

costs nothing, but works wonders for oiling the cogs of social exchange. — Rebecca Tope

At Varanasi, according to Ferishta, Muhammad of Ghor and Qutb-ud-din Aybak demolished the idols in a thousand temples and then rededicated these shrines 'to the worship of the true God'. — John Keay

My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration. — William Of Norwich