A Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
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If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.
Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.
I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.
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.
It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.
All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
In any business, there are facilities that excel at what they do and others that need improvement and further training.
If you want to be loved, start loving others who need your love....If you want others to sympathize with you, start showing sympathy to those around you. If you want to be respected, you must learn to be respectful to everyone, both young and old....Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself; then you will find others responding in like manner to you.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
I don't want to be jack of all, master of none. I want to focus completely and excel as an actor with every project.
Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.
I want to excel at something, to follow through, to not be afraid.
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
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