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Aristotle
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Anon.
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Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best.
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Hesiod
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Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.
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Sun-tzu
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To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
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Charles R. Swindoll
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The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
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Michael J. Fox
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for perfection is God's business.
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Aristotle
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Shaquille ONeal
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Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
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Sophocles
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.
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Charles Dudley Warner
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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence.
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Stephen Jobs
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
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David Starr Jordan
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There is no real excellence in all this world Which can be separated from right living.
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William Hazlitt
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
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Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
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Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.
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Unknown
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Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise risking more than others think is safe dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 284.
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Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
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Sallust
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Vince Lombardi
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.
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Warren Bennis
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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William John Bennett
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Most certification today is pure 'credentialism.' It must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment.
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Bertrand Russell
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
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Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
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Marabel Morgan
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Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.
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Hesiod
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Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.
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Richard Milhous Nixon
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What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
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Hesiod
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Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Kahlil Gibran
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
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George Orwell
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Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has att
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Buck Rodgers
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There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy.
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Alvaro de Solva
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It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.
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Vince Lombardi
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After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.
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John W. Gardner
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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John W. Gardner
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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John W. Hanley
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Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.
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Clive Staples Lewis
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What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Strive for excellence, not perfection.
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There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.
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Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.
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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.
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Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
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"Style distinguishes excellence from accomplishment" - J. Coplien
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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.
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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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