Excellence Quotes - Page 20

• Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Active, Known

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• I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kings, Horror Genre, Body

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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• I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.

  Chris Rock

  Names, Want, Comedy

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Football, Greatness, Michigan

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• I was one of two first cultural exchange artists been allowed to go to the West. I knew it was such a rare opportunity and I had to treasure it by giving my utter most to achieve excellence.

  Li Cunxin

  Artist, Opportunity, Two

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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• I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

  Sam Altman

  Believe, Innovation, Culture

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• Nobody is excused from the excellence trend. Babies are not excused. Starting right after they get out of the womb, modern babies are exposed to instructional flashcards designed to make them the best babies they can possibly be, so they can get into today's competitive preschools. Your eighties baby sees so many flashcards that he never gets an unobstructed view of his parents' faces. As an adult, he'll carry around a little wallet card that says "7x9=63," because it will remind him of mother.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Mother, Baby

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• The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of manifold suggestions, which ministers to every ambition, engenders a thousand talents, nurtures ingenuity and experimentation.

  Ibn Warraq

  Art, New York, Ambition

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.19, Encounter Books

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• Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Intellect, Manuals

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

  Michael Jordan

  Years, Week, Constant

  Michael Jordan (2012). “Driven from Within”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Rain

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• If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Fun, Business, Kids

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• Excellence requires us to prepare in advance.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian

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• It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.

  Samuel Butler

  Success, Opportunity, Men

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• There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Entrepreneur, Substitutes

  Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

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• You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

  Greg Plitt

  Motivational, Habit, Strive

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• Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

  Douglas Merrill

  Success, Differences, Perfection

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• The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth, Expression, Few Words

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.76

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• People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Best Effort

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• Whoever entered the political realm had first to be ready to risk his life, and too great a love for life obstructed freedom, was a sure sign of slavishness. Courage therefore became the political virtue par excellence.

  Hannah

  Love Life, Political, Risk

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• In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Military, Army, Men

  T. E. Lawrence (2013). “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”, p.349, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of, is the price we pay for the fact that we live our lives not by ourselves but among our fellow men, and that the faculty of action, which, after all, is the political faculty par excellence, can be actualized only as one of the many and manifold forces of human community.

  Hannah

  Responsibility, Men, Community

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• It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.

  Edward Bok

  Country, Growth, Elements

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• I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Influence, Pursue, Products

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• But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Men, Firsts

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “The Lives of the Poets: A Selection”, p.396, OUP Oxford

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