#ellen

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance. ↗

— Criss Jami

#envious #envy #excellence #greatness #jealous

I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up ↗

— Frank O'Hara

#fame #fashion #poetry #love

Most of us are continually engaged in some form of pursuit. We are seeking excellence within one or more areas in our lives, and that is the basis of our motivation. It is human nature to have a need to get ahead, need a little something more—it’s in our DNA. Although we may not be certain of what we need at any given moment, we know there’s something. It’s a competitive itch and desire to improve that never goes away. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#excellence #motivation #pursuit #motivational

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence. ↗

— Aeschylus

#beneath #despot #excellence #given #god

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#hard #how #ian #ian mckellen #judi

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. ↗

— Aristotle

#exempt #madness #mixture #soul

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

#acts #become #brave #comes #doing

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. ↗

— Aristotle

#choice #concerned #determine #determined #excellence

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. ↗

— Aristotle

#each #excellence #friendship #good #men

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#does #excellence #goes #lie #produces