Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard.
For he that once is good, is ever great.
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
To be a great nation and a great people, you have to do great things.
We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately--but we still shall strive. We may make mistakes--but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.
Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.
