I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
Alexander the Great

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
Jack Nicklaus

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.
Chris Evert

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.
David Kay

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.
Willie Mays

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.
Christine Gregoire

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
Plutarch

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.
Dionne Warwick

Many people who excel are self-taught.
Herb Ritts

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Winston Churchill

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Andre Breton

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Epictetus

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Charles Churchill

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.
James Nathan Miller

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
Algernon Sydney

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.
Bruce Scheneier

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.
Giraldus Cambrensis