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• We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Leadership, Wisdom, Distance

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• When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

  Joe Paterno

  Teamwork, Confidence, Reality

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• The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Firsts, Moral

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.275

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• There is no excellency without difficulty.

  Ovid

  Difficulty

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• One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wells, Security

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• The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Self, Personality, Deeper

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• A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.

  William Rosenberg

  Passion, Imagination, Leader

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• Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Running, Dream

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• But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

  Dave Heineman

  Guarantees, Want, Assuming

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• No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

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• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Football

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• Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.

  Barack Obama

  Together We Can, People, Different

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• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Philosophical, Passion

  "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,

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• Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Art, Struggle, Men

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• If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

  Anita Roddick

  Meaningful, Hard Work, Kids

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• You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Trying, Definitions

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• Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Views, Soul

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.22, Wordsworth Editions

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• A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

  Terry Orlick

  Sports, Loss, Achieve

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• The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

  John W. Gardner

  Men, Ideas, Goal

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.171, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

  Solon

  Men, Evil, Good Man

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• Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

  William Ellery Channing

  Eye, Perfection, Speed

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• When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

  Denis Diderot

  Birthday, Goodbye, Farewell

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Success, Inspiration

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.93, BookBaby

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• The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Strength, Perseverance

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Mean, Creative, Rejects

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