Excellence Quotes - Page 21

• Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Active, Known

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• I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kings, Horror Genre, Body

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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• I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.

  Chris Rock

  Names, Want, Comedy

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Football, Greatness, Michigan

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• I was one of two first cultural exchange artists been allowed to go to the West. I knew it was such a rare opportunity and I had to treasure it by giving my utter most to achieve excellence.

  Li Cunxin

  Artist, Opportunity, Two

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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• I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

  Sam Altman

  Believe, Innovation, Culture

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• Nobody is excused from the excellence trend. Babies are not excused. Starting right after they get out of the womb, modern babies are exposed to instructional flashcards designed to make them the best babies they can possibly be, so they can get into today's competitive preschools. Your eighties baby sees so many flashcards that he never gets an unobstructed view of his parents' faces. As an adult, he'll carry around a little wallet card that says "7x9=63," because it will remind him of mother.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Mother, Baby

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• The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of manifold suggestions, which ministers to every ambition, engenders a thousand talents, nurtures ingenuity and experimentation.

  Ibn Warraq

  Art, New York, Ambition

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.19, Encounter Books

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• People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go far beyond meeting standardised test measures. They aspire to truly level the playing field for their students, which means inspiring a love of learning, fostering the highest levels of critical thinking, building perseverance in working towards academic excellence, and so on.

  Wendy Kopp

  Perseverance, Teacher, Real

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Excellence Matters. Excellent people. Excellent vision. Excellent marketing. Excellent strategies.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Rain

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• Excellence requires us to prepare in advance.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian

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• If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Fun, Business, Kids

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• It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.

  Samuel Butler

  Success, Opportunity, Men

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• Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness.

  John Adams

  Government, Support, Honor

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.85, Hackett Publishing

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• Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation.

  John Locke

  Wise, Nature, Mean

  John Locke (1815). “An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].”, p.96

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• If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

  William Pollard

  People, Perfection, Want

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• Because God is not only infinitely greater and more excellent than all other being, but he is the head of the universal system of existence; the foundation and fountain of all being and all beauty; from whom all is perfectly derived, and on whom all is most absolutely and perfectly dependent; of whom, and through whom, and to whom is all being and all perfection; and whose being and beauty are, as it were, the sum and comprehension of all existence and excellence: much more than the sun is the fountain and summary comprehension of all the light and brightness of the day.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Light, Perfection, Brightness

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.125

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• Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.

  Timothy Murphy

  Safety, Records, Benefits

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• As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

  Alex Campbell

  Mean, Progress, Quality

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• Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

  Bruce Henderson

  Waste, Encounters, Impossible

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• True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.

  Reggie Jackson

  Success, Sports, Character

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• Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

  Bill Johnson

  Might, Kingdoms, Lord

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• Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.

  John Piper

  Doe, Matter, Way

  John Piper (2009). “Life as a Vapor: Thirty-One Meditations for Your Faith”, p.15, Multnomah

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• My path was simple: Follow your passion. Pour in your heart and soul. Settle for nothing less than excellence. And with enough hard work and faith in yourself, you can realize your dream.

  Robert Mondavi

  Dream, Hard Work, Passion

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.304, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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