Owen Feltham Quotes

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

No matter who you are, or what you're doing, there's always going to be someone that wants to be better than you. So I try to take the high road and be the bigger person. That way, you always win in the end!

A superior man thinks of what is right. A small man thinks of profit.

I don't think you can ever get bored of winning awards.

I'm not fussed about awards. I just want to win a medal and a trophy.

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

Three cheers for Sheriff Wilson. - Bucky Dideron

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise and shine Should seek internal excellence to win. And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind That where they meet they perish. All is fair When they are gone and nought remains behind.

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future we must provide by maintaining what the present gives us and redoubling our efforts; it is hereditary to us to win virtue as the fruit of labour, and you must not change the habit, even though you should have a slight advantage in wealth and resources; for it is not right that what was won in want should be lost in plenty.

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.