Excellence Quotes

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  If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.198, Ballantine Books

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• Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Journey, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 02, 2016

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• Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Success, Waiting, Classroom

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• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

  George Foreman

  Inspiration, Perspiration

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• The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Leadership, Athlete

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• I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Niece, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• The noblest search is the search for excellence.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.

  Nik Halik

  Successful, Tasks, Commit

  FaceBook post by Nik Halik from Oct 02, 2014

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• No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

  Horace

  Art, Men, Psychology

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• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  President Robert Robbins' Installation Speech, president.arizona.edu. November 29, 2017.

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• True greatness consists in being great in little things.

  Charles Simmons

  Greatness, Littles, Little Things

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.315

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• An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John Gardner

  Philosophy, Humble, Water

  "Excellence, Can We be Equal and Excellent Too?" by John W. Gardner, (p. 86), 1961.

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• If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Giving Back, Miles

  Joel Osteen (2008). “Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential”, p.309, Hachette UK

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• Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Perseverance, Habit, Passion For Excellence

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  Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.

  Nick Saban

  Thinking, Sky, Pie

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• Never settle for anything less than your best.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Winning, Perfection

  Twitter post from Jul 27, 2015

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• All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

  John W. Gardner

  Discipline, Purpose, Tenacity

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.103, Pickle Partners Publishing

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  Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

  Socrates

  Habit

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  The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

  Tom Landry

  Life, Football, Commitment

  Tom Landry, Gregg A. Lewis (1990). “Tom Landry: an autobiography”, Zondervan

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• It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Strong, Men, Issues

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