Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.

A fortune earned with merit lasts longer than a fortune earned by inheritance.

If you do anything with mediocrity, you will do everything with mediocrity.

Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.

Men with merit need to be rewarded, but men without merit need not be insulted.

True merit is like steel and not like cotton, it seems small from outside but weighs heavy inside.

An amateur should be more willing to be impressed by the professional than eager to impress the professional.

Mediocrity naturally feels threatened in the presence of merit.