Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right.
Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
Every thought and every word you speak is an affirmation. So why not choose to use only positive affirmations to create an exceptional life? I know you can do it!
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.
The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.
We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.
He is an exceptional talent. I still think Diego Maradona is the best player I have ever seen but Messi is closing in fast. He's a wonderful sight in full flight and we are lucky to have him around.
You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When my fitness was at its peak, I was intimidating. I made guys cave in. They'd be dejected in the locker room after matches, and I'd go out for a run, as if it wasn't enough. I'd rub it in their faces. I meant to do that.
What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
Exceptional ideas create excellent opportunities
The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.
There was a wish to get something exceptional,. . . I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.
[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.