Excellence Quotes - Page 17

• Go where no one's gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Gone, Behind You

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jun 03, 2011

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• Excellence in one area is the beginning of excellence in every area.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Buisness, Areas

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Sep 14, 2011

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• We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

  Aristotle

  Integrity, Moving, Waiting

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• There is definitely a connection between finding your passion and reaching your potential. People ask me all the time, 'John, how do I know what I am meant to do in life?' The answer is really simple: Energy and Excellence. When you experience unbounded energy in what you are doing, when you are driven to excellence in your work and love what you do - then you can rest assured that you have found your passion and are definitely in pursuit of your full potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Passion, Simple, People

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• There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

  Ovid

  Difficulty

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• To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.267, Cambridge University Press

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• To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

  Audre Lorde

  Mediocrity, Our Society

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.54, Crossing Press

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• The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

  Ken Robinson

  Commitment, Creative, Energy

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.84, Penguin

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• We must always meet our obligation to those who fall behind without our assistance. But let's remember, without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence - in education or any other walk of life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Fall, Race, Broken

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Begin now what you will be hereafter.

  St. Jerome

  Success, Classroom, Hereafter

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• Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Past, Links

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• Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

  Edward Rowland Sill

  Success, Swimming, Academic Excellence

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• I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

  Tom Peters

  Real, Creativity, School

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• Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

  Laurence Olivier

  Perfection, Excuse, Strive

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• Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Missing, World

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• Be an evangelist with your excellence.

  Dave Ramsey

  Evangelists

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• When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

  David McCullough

  Hard Work, Mean, Pursuit Of Happiness

  "What makes a great leader?". Interview with Scott Berinato, www.afr.com. February 8, 2013.

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• Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Innovation, Weirdness

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• Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Perfection, Firsts, Achieve

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• Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

  Horace Mann

  Records, Biographies, Study

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.105

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• The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

  Cheng Man-ch'ing

  Medicine, Poetry, Calligraphy

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• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  Walter Pater

  Beauty, Art, Use

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe we're not pawns, we're not victims on this planet, that knows we have the power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!

  Richard Bach

  Spiritual, Believe, World

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• Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Memories, Winning

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• Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

  Tara Fela-Durotoye

  Father, Real, Role Models

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