Excellence Quotes - Page 17

• We must always meet our obligation to those who fall behind without our assistance. But let's remember, without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence - in education or any other walk of life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Fall, Race, Broken

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Begin now what you will be hereafter.

  St. Jerome

  Success, Classroom, Hereafter

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

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Past, Links

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• Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

  Edward Rowland Sill

  Success, Swimming, Academic Excellence

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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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• 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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• Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Innovation, Weirdness

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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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• 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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• Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Memories, Winning

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• Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

  Tara Fela-Durotoye

  Father, Real, Role Models

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• Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Light, Color

  Andreas Feininger (1973). “Photographic seeing”, Prentice Hall

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• Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Lasts, Grows

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• A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. life with ups and downs is better than a flat life or one that goes in circles. Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

  Marabel Morgan

  Leadership, Sports, Persistence

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• If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

  Aristotle

  Men, Soul, Good Man

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1098a,

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• For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
  whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Humility, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Character, Steel

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• Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

  Matthew Syed

  Doe, Concentration, Translate

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• The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ

  Thomas Chalmers

  Beauty, Christian, Religious

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• I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

  Scott Lynch

  Powerful, Artist, Presence Of Mind

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• Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.

  George Will

  Sports, Integrity, Play

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.

  Terrence E. Deal

  Educational, Lying, School

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• Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

  Terry Orlick

  Sports, Silver Platter, Hands

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