Excellence Quotes - Page 2

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

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and achieve personal happiness. The worthy goals of civilization can only be achieved by freedom-loving individuals. When government uses force, liberty is sacrificed and the goals are lost. It is freedom that is the source of all creative energy.

  Ron Paul

  Freedom, Government, Civilization

  Ron Paul Video Address Announcing 2008 Presidential Exploratory Committee, blog.4president.org. February 19, 2007.

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• There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

  Walter Scott

  Character, Self, Noble

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• I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Integrity, Character

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• Mentally prepare ourselves for excellence...block out the noise of everyday distractions and tap into the quietness of meaningful focus, intent and a winning mindset.

  Robert Cheeke

  Meaningful, Block, Winning

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• Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Imagine, Masterpiece

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2015

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

  Michael J. Fox

  Work, Inspirational Life, Self Esteem

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

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• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Commitment

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• All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Work, Teaching

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.

  Ralph Marston

  Opportunity, Shining, Effort

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• We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Wisdom, Easter

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• Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Inspiring, Graduation, Impact

  "Gettysburg College Graduation Speech". www.seventeen.com. April 6, 2018.

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• Commit to Excellence. Become massively innovative and wear your passion on your sleeve. They might call you different or weird or even crazy. But please remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

  Robin Sharma

  Crazy, Passion, Leader

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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• Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

  Ralph Marston

  Life, Motivational, Graduation

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• The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

  J. Paul Getty

  Mean, Men, Fingertips

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• There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Excellent, Teach

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• To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Success, Basketball

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• The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Art, Life And Love

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.114, Bantam

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• Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Effort, Tasks, Way

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• There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Trust, Hands, Use

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• Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

  David Ogilvy

  Design, Balls, Parks

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• one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Men, Twenties

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• People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.

  Stephen Covey

  Happiness, Self Esteem, Feel Better

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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