Quotes by Bruyere, Jean De La

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and i >>

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. >>

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. >>

Quotations about Excellence

People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sens >>

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to s >>

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives inte >>

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La