We cannot do great things on this earth, only small things with great love.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

How excellent is thy name in all the earth.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act ‘rightly’ because we are ‘excellent’, in fact we achieve ‘excellence’ by acting ‘rightly’.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.

Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.