Excellence Quotes - Page 6

• If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

  Robert Townsend

  Fun, Excellent, Profitable Business

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Fighting, Excellent, Mediocre

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

  John Milton

  Firsts

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.500, Modern Library

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• Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

  Lowell Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

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• It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Excellent

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• We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Positive, Success, Business

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• But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

  Lactantius

  Perfect, Mind, Eternal

  Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.23, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Destiny, Play, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

  Aristotle

  Spiritual, Exercise, Men

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

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• Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Thinking, Mind, Three

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• I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Perfection, Essentials, Details

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• As you progress towards enlightenment you will find that you become a winner at anything, not because you are so concerned about winning anymore. You are just concerned about the pursuit of excellence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Winning

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• Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Eye, Mediocrity

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• Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

  Herman Melville

  Children, Patriotic, Land

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

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• I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

  Greg LeMond

  Inspirational, Struggle, Cycling

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• You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

  James Daly

  Focus, Rumor, Trying

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• Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Art, Chiefs, Fine

  EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.156

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• Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

  Protagoras

  Cities, Advice, Accepting

  "Protagoras". Book by Plato, Oxford University Press, p. 19, 2002.

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• Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

  Irving Babbitt

  Style, Substance, Jargon

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.108, Transaction Publishers

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• A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Running, Horse, Giving

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.189, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

  Adriana Trigiani

  Boys, Settling, Should

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Men, Hands, Mind

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (2009). “Seven Discourses on Art”, p.36, The Floating Press

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• Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

  Bill Sands

  Want

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