Excellence Quotes - Page 38

• We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Giving, Lord, Should

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• Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

  Debi Thomas

  Strong, Belief, Olympian

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• Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

  Criss Jami

  Patience, Passion, Persistence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.100, Criss Jami

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• As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.

  Criss Jami

  Feelings, Relaxation, Want

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.130, Criss Jami

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• We usually get what we anticipate.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Anticipation, Anticipate

  Claude M. Bristol (2013). “The Magic of Believing”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

  Criss Jami

  Bullying, Land, Weakness

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

  John Brunner

  Mind, Different, Literature

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• The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Ideas, Black, Taught

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• You have excellence on the inside. It’s who you are. Now do your part. Bring out your excellence!

  Joel Osteen

  Who You Are

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• We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.

  Mike Curb

  Team, Knowing, Groups

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• We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

  John W. Gardner

  Islands, Sea, Indifference

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.143, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

  John Avery

  Mean, Achieve, Aspire

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• We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.

  Marianne Williamson

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• The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

  Ted Malloch

  Honesty, Long, Virtue

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

  Ted Malloch

  People

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts to do anything or enter any profession, be it business, politics, art or sports, the only reason theyre allowed entry or, incredibly, attain excellence is because the standard was lowered. Be they liberals, people of color, women, the poor or anyone with an accent.... Edgy, controversial, brilliant. What a way to shake up intelligent sports commentary. Hitler would have killed in talk radio. He was edgy, too.

  Nancy Giles

  Sports, Art, Intelligent

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• The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

  Aristotle

  Maturity, Giving, Moral

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• Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

  Aristotle

  Honesty, Men, May

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• Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

  Narendra Modi

  Collective Effort, Individual Effort, India

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• Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but is an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while there exists equal justice to all and alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit

  Pericles

  Hands, Government, Justice

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• Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

  Janet Morris

  Jealousy, Discipline, Band

  Janet Morris (1986). “Beyond Sanctuary”, Ace Books

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  Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Confusion, Three

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• Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.

  Kent Conrad

  Powerful, America, Long

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• The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

  Lou Gerstner

  Culture, I Have Learned, Ibm

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• There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Hero, Ambition, Roles

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