The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. View quotes by John Gardner
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time. View quotes by William Hazlitt
The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. View quotes by John Ruskin
