Excellence Quotes - Page 12

• Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

  John W. Gardner

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Passion, Ideas

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 17, 2011

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• I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

  Alber Elbaz

  Thinking, Perfection, Fashion Designer

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• Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, God, Hate

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• Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

  Aeschylus

  Lying, Tyrants, Anarchy

  "Oresteia".

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• One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.

  Les Brown

  Powerful, Goal, Perfection

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• Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

  George Eliot

  Life, Spiritual, World

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.4128, ShandonPress

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• The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as 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 W. Gardner

  Philosophy, Rain, Anger

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.97, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.249, Courier Corporation

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• It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Quality, Matter

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius". Book by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, transl. Richard Mott Gummere, Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation, line 1, 1920.

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Writing, Self Improvement

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• Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

  Harriet Martineau

  Class, Moral, Profession

  Harriet Martineau (1838). “How to Observe: Morals and Manners”, p.85, Transaction Publishers

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• Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

  Confucius

  Education, Wise, Clever

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Appreciation, Next

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• Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

  Harriet B. Braiker

  Motivational, Women, Memorable

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• One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

  Epictetus

  Sports, Philosophical, Perfection

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• In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clear Goals, Loyal, Trivia

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Positive Thinking, Self Improvement

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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  There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

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• No one knows what he can do till he tries.

  Publilius Syrus

  Maturity, Long, Trying

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 786, 1856.

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• By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

  Plato

  Mean, Men, Names

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• The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

  James A. Michener

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Thinking, Perfection, Done

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• I have always looked at it this way: If you strive like crazy for perfection - an all-out assault on total perfection - at the very least you will hit a high level of excellence, and then you might be able to sleep at night. To accomplish something truly significant, excellence has to become a life plan.

  Charlie Trotter

  Crazy, Sleep, Night

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