Excellence Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Be an evangelist with your excellence.

  Dave Ramsey

  Evangelists

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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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• Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

  Robin Sharma

  Effectiveness, Innovation, Titles

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• It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.

  Tom Osborne

  Integrity, Vision, Important

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• The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Independent, Men

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• I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

  Charlie Trotter

  Kind, Perfectionist, Deviation

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• I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

  Grant Hill

  Player, Black, Dukes

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• Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

  Harlan Ellison

  Perfection, Waking, Lips

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• How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.

  Dan Miller

  Struggle, Focus, Mediocrity

  Dan Miller (2007). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.77, B&H Publishing Group

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• That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  What Matters, Accomplish, Something Better

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• The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Succeed, Type

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.246, Penguin

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• A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Strength, Wise, Hope

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.38, BookRix

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• Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

  Marquis de Sade

  Truth, Honesty, Light

  Marquis de Sade (2013). “120 Days of Sodom”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast
  each with a splendor
  which man in all his vileness cannot
  set aside; each with an excellence!

  Marianne Moore

  Moon, Night, Men

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.118, Penguin

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• Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

  Plato

  Death, Men, Upright Man

  Phaedo 118a

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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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• On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Time, Jobs, Military

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• It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

  Stephen Fry

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

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• When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?

  Saadi

  Sleep, Men, Appreciate

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