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“Let the calumniators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and henceforth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.”
― William Lloyd Garrison, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“If you are getting jealous of someone excellence, believe me it will make you upset, disturbing, nervous, confused, distressing, and so on.”
― Santosh Kumar (San)

“It doesn’t cost more to strive for excellence, but if you settle for mediocrity, it’ll cost you dearly.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“When leaders tolerate mediocrity, it’s a cancer that spreads like wildfire.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Appreciation of beauty is a strength that connects someone directly to excellence. Gratitude connects someone directly to goodness.”
― christopher peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“The mind is large enough to contain the biggest idea.”
― Adeyemi Taiwo Eunice

“We may each be good at certain things but all of us are a bunch of dum-dums in most things.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Social media is the supreme triumph of the commonplace, the undiluted voice of the commonplace, the perfect means of viral transmission of the commonplace. All excellence is tracked down and exterminated. The commonplace infects everything. It grows like weeds everywhere and strangles all beautiful, exceptional flowers. All tall poppies are all cut down.”
― Joe Dixon, The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning

“Only on the hard path can you actualize your potential, grow, mature, have peak human experiences and enjoy epiphanies. The hard path alone allows you to fulfill yourself. The easy path destroys your soul.”
― Thomas Stark, God Is Mathematics: The Proofs of the Eternal Existence of Mathematics

“Those who believe they cannot be defeated, lack imagination.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“The greatest enemy of enlightenment is “common senseâ€�. In day-today life, common sense “worksâ€�, which is why ordinary people revere it. Most managers in the workplace are good at common sense i.e. knowing how to play the system, to obey the rules, to pander to higher managers, to avoid radical ideas, to highlight their modest successes and blame others for their failures, and to stick firmly within the domain of the conventional, acceptable and uncontroversial. Unfortunately, they’re hopeless at everything else. All geniuses, on the other hand, can “seeâ€� far beyond the realm of common sense. They use imagination, intuition and visionary ideas as their guides, not the trivialities of common sense. What would you rather be â€� a middle manager with a comfortable common sense life, or a genius who has unlocked the door to the mysteries of existence? Tragically for humanity, most people aspire to be middle managers. That’s the extent of their ambition, that’s as far as their horizons stretch. These are the sort of people that Nietzsche scornfully branded as “Last Men.”
― Adam Weishaupt, The Illuminati's Six Dimensional Universe

“We don’t gain anything by lowering the bar so that everyone can clear it.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“The death of quality foreshadows the death of humanity. What is the point of humanity if it does not produce the highest quality and excellence? A humanity that is not ascending is descending. As it is, the crushing weight of averageness and mediocrity presses down on everything and makes all high things flat, drab and dull. All the tall poppies have to die. The only tall poppies the mediocre like are those associated with wealth, beauty and fame. They despise the intelligent, the artistic and the technical.”
― Joe Dixon, The Irresistible Rise of Mediocre Man: The War On Excellence

“True excellence comes from God. Wisdom is given to those who ask, the willingness to know is a grace that can only be ensured by God and understanding is available only to the humble.”
― Victor Vote

“Task yourself to achieve high slides. Because you can.”
― Adeyemi Taiwo Eunice

“Perfection is desirable.
Yet excellence is often perfectly acceptable.”
― Hrishikesh Agnihotri

“Opening and closing images frame our whole lives, like birth and death. But I’m really talking about the dynamic phase of our lives when we’re making our way in the world. The opening image is when we’re eighteen, say, and our closing image is when we’re about fifty. We all have thirty-two years to get our closing image right, and hardly anyone succeeds. When we’re on our deathbed, will we be proud of our closing image, or tormented by it? That’s the challenge of the movie of our life. That’s when we know if we’re going to heaven or hell. That’s the Final Judgment.”
― Mike Hockney, The Last Bling King

“Greg realised these weren’t his closing images at all. They were the opening images of the new movie of his life, the movie he’d be happy to watch on an infinite loop. His life would be a collection of the most wondrous pearls scattered over a beach of gold in this new Eden. He’d have to polish every moment, to make each gleam and shine like a perfect mirror because he might be seeing himself reflected back in those mirror moments. Forever.”
― Mike Hockney, The Last Bling King

“Progress is one step closer to excellence.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Are you ready to transform yourself? Are you ready to be one of the Special Ones, the Illuminated Ones? Are you ready to play the God Game? Only the strongest, the smartest, the boldest, can play. This is not a drill. This is your life. Stop being what you have been. Become what you were meant to be. See the Light. Join the Hyperboreans. Become a HyperHuman. Only the highest, only the noblest, only the most courageous are called. A new dawn is coming... the birth of Hyperreason. It’s time to enter Hyperreality.”
― Thomas Stark, The Sheldrake Shift: A Critical Evaluation of Morphic Resonance

“You shape yourself, you make yourself. There is no one to save you other than yourself. It’s not Christ, Mohammed or Moses who’s responsible for your life, it’s you. In the end, souls judge themselves.”
― Michael Faust, The Right-Brain God

“Recognize and reward people for excellence, not for just showing up.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Meritocracy is not a pass/fail system, but rather a system that allows each person to find their own highest attainment. There is no shame in being less than first in a particular field or endeavor â€� it is simply that the other person had more skills suited for that particular event. Meritocracy gives everyone the best possible chance. It doesn’t promise victory for everyone. Only the very best will win.”
― Adam Weishaupt, Voices of the Movement

“Excellence was never an accident. That excellent outcomes were the result of ‘the wise choice of many alternatives.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“It’s been a while since I’ve done something I didn’t already excel at. I don’t love the feeling of incompetence stealing over me.”
― Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka

“Know that by being too good in what you do, you're also doing a great job at making others look bad. And most people will hate you for it. This is the biggest downside of trying to be outstanding; of excelling. Can you blame why most of us want to remain mediocre?”
― Laarni Venus Marie Giango

“True self-respect, according to Mencius, is based on the vales of benevolence, dutifulness, conscientiousness, truthfulness, and delight in what is good. Bravery, in Chinese philosophy, is the quality that allows people to pursue those values, hold steadfast to them in times when they are challenged, and remain true to them when faced with conventional social ideals that conflict with full human excellence.”
― Christopher Peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“Encouragement as a concept in psychology has been most influenced by Adler (1946), who proposed that discouragement was at the root of many mental health problems and the seed of destruction in many interpersonal relationships.”
― Christopher Peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“If you want excellence, you have to recognize and reward it. Period.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“The radical idea at the core of the strengths movement is that excellence is not the opposite of failure, and that, as such, you will learn little about excellence from studying failure.”
― Marcus Buckingham, Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance