Exceptional Quotes

• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 02, 2016

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• To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

  Giorgio Armani

  Life Changing, Focus, Details

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 18, 2017

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• One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 15, 2017

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• The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

  Oswald Chambers

  Religious, Attitude, Character

  Oswald Chambers (1985). “My Utmost for His Highest”

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• Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 21, 2016

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• If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.

  Cory Booker

  Effort, Want, Results

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Oct 06, 2014

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• There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Successful, Way, Policy

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.125, 谷月社

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• It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Inspirational, Motivation, People

  "Putin jabs U.S., Obama in op-ed, says Syria strike would be 'act of aggression'" By Jamie Crawford, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2013.

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• Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

  David McCullough

  Courage, Men, Self

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, “Hey Tris!” and Uriah cries, “Ow! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?” “My exceptional strength,” she says.

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, Hey, Earth

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• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Art, Business

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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  Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 04, 2016

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• Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

  Lance Morrow

  Leader, Inevitable

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• Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft

  Robin Sharma

  Ego, Ordinary, Crafts

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• Individuals with high executive intelligence cannot reach their potential unless surrounded by others with a similar level of skill. Without a concerted effort on the part of businesses to seek out those with exceptional decision-making abilities, the gap between who businesses actually need, and who they hire and promote, will remain wide.

  Justin Menkes

  Effort, Individual, Ability

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  "To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words" by Lorraine Hansberry, (p. 137), 1969.

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• It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems.

  David First

  People, Trying, Sound

  "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.

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• Either you run the day or the day runs you.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 15, 2016

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• One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

  Stormie Omartian

  Love, Marriage, Forgiveness

  Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Wife”, p.25, Harvest House Publishers

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• You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 14, 2017

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• What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

  Norman Mailer

  Evil, Groups, Minorities

  1966 Cannibals and Christians, 'A Speech AtBerkeley on Vietnam Day'.

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• Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 05, 2017

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• Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, People

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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