Excellence Quotes - Page 14

• Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Process, Should, Efforts Wasted

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• We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

  Aristotle

  Self, Events, Ongoing

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• Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Men, Justice

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.100, OUP Oxford

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• Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.

  Douglas Conant

  Jobs, Commitment, Creating

  "Saving Campbell Soup Company". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. February 11, 2010.

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• The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don't think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Thinking, Support You

  Tony Robbins (2008). “Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Perfection, Joy

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• The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Art, Work, Lying

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• Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

  William Shakespeare

  Constant, Stills, Wondrous

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• To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime: critical analysis skills, the ability to deal with ambiguity and to solve problems, perseverance and a drive for excellence. Moreover, the creative skills children develop through the arts carry them toward new ideas, new experiences, and new challenges, not to mention personal satisfaction. This is the intrinsic value of the arts, and it cannot be overestimated.

  Rod Paige

  Perseverance, Art, Children

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• We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much money we have available to spend. More dollars will never do it. We have to develop a strong corporate conscience. Ethical muscle. And that doesn't happen by accident either.

  Price Pritchett

  Strong, Achievement, Dollars

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• It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

  Brad Henry

  Children, Expectations, Full Potential

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• Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

  Henry Ford II

  Time, Future, Risk

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• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Teacher, Mediocrity, Exemplary

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.142, John Wiley & Sons

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• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  Walter Pater

  Beauty, Art, Use

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the passing comforts it bestows - we will certainly attain it. One hopes and prays it doesn't take an historic crisis for us to demand and reward excellence in public service.

  James M Strock

  Comfort, Mediocrity, Praying

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• There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe we're not pawns, we're not victims on this planet, that knows we have the power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!

  Richard Bach

  Spiritual, Believe, World

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• I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

  Tom Peters

  Real, Creativity, School

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• Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Missing, World

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• Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Past, Links

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• Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

  Laurence Olivier

  Perfection, Excuse, Strive

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• When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

  David McCullough

  Hard Work, Mean, Pursuit Of Happiness

  "What makes a great leader?". Interview with Scott Berinato, www.afr.com. February 8, 2013.

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• Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Perfection, Firsts, Achieve

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• Be an evangelist with your excellence.

  Dave Ramsey

  Evangelists

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• Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

  Horace Mann

  Records, Biographies, Study

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.105

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• The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

  Cheng Man-ch'ing

  Medicine, Poetry, Calligraphy

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