«Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.»

«The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.»

«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.»

«Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.»

«Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: / Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.»

«So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass; / And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth; / And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.»

«One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent»

«O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.»

«The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.»

«The Democrats and Republicans are equally corrupt -- it's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.»