"We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves."

-- John Selden

#Men Quotes #Excellence Quotes

“I trained myself to be organized,”
“Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.”
“I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence?”

Source : Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.45, Crown Forum
“Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.”
“What we're really trying to tell, even though it's very much a genre show, is a very human story. Even in this heightened situation, it still comes down to people being people, and dealing with people as people. It really is about the seven people in that town.”
“The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.”

Source : Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.214

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