Outstanding Individual Achievement

Famous quotes containing the words outstanding, individual and/or achievement:

    “Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize.”
    —Jaroslav Pelikan (b. 1932)

    “God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.”
    —Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)

    “Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.”
    —James Thurber (1894–1961)