Excellence Quotes - Page 24

• High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others. . . . If you accommodate questionable practices in others who touch your organization, you risk soiling its reputation. Anybody whose hands aren't clean can get the place dirty.

  Price Pritchett

  Dirty, Hands, Practice

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• The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

  Samuel Smiles

  People, Capacity, Exertion

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• The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Law, Brain

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.199, Diversion Books

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• There is no safety in hiding. Like my brothers before me, I pick up a fallen standard. Sustained by the memory of our priceless years together, I shall try to carry forward that special commitment to justice, excellence and courage that distinguished their lives.

  Edward Kennedy

  Brother, Memories, Commitment

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• There are names like Savoy Hotel, Caruso, Shangri-La, Pavlove, Mount Everest and the Treorchy Male Choir that just hang up there as peaks of excellence - perfect things that we simply take for granted as symbols of greatness. So imagine how delighted and honoured I am to join with all the other small peaks in congratulating the Choir of Choirs on its anniversary. In admiration, since I was a boy!

  Ron Moody

  Greatness, Boys, Names

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• I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.

  Michael Parkinson

  Memories, Inspiration, Brass Bands

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• It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Vineyards

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• Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

  Alfie Kohn

  Two, Victory, Trying

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• You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.

  George Foreman

  Winning, Sight, Years

  George Foreman, Ken Abraham (2007). “God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir”, p.167, Thomas Nelson

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• ... the major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters mediocrity. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.

  M. J. Ryan

  Lying, Knowing, Mediocrity

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• An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Accomplishment, Vision

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• Mastery in work and in life is about committing yourself to being excellent in everything you do, no matter how small and no matter if no one is watching. Do you practice excellence in your most private moments?

  Robin Sharma

  Practice, Mastery, Matter

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• Getting Stronger - Each day upon entering the weight room you demonstrate a desire for excellence that makes you someone special. Special, because few people possess the dedication and strength of heart required to regularly work hard at something this difficult. Upon completion of each workout, you can and should feel proud, for you have just moved one step closer towards reaching your full potential and the ultimate goal of and being the best you can be.

  Mike Berry

  Workout, Hard Work, Heart

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• Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.

  Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

  Dream, Average, Expectations

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• Connfidence, excellence becomes a reality.

  Joe Paterno

  Reality

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• Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Greatness, Achieve, Pursuit

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• Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Effort, Progression, Strive

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• It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

  Plato

  Thinking, Soul, Body

  Plato, Raymond Larson (1979). “The Republic”, Wiley-Blackwell

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• If you want to prove yourself to God, improve yourself. Words of guidance are so simple, yet so deep - anybody can win, if he be the soul entry.
  Unfortunately, in every field, there are so many entries and so to win , one has to cultivate excellence.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Winning, Simple, Soul

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• In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.

  James C. Collins

  Meaningful, Hands, Creating

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• How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!

  Tom Peters

  Stuff, Achieve, Excellent

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• Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

  Philip Selznick

  Responsibility, Simple, Groups

  Attributed to Selznick in "Everyone Leads" by Kobi Yamada, ‎Dan Zadra, ‎Steve Potter, 2003.

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• Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.

  Terry Orlick

  Mother, Reality, Mind

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• I don't want to cower at somebody's interpretation of what I'm about. I'm supposed to be doing it and I'm going to throw this word out there-with excellence. There's no reason for me to give anything less that all I've got in everything I do. That's scriptural. For me, that's the foundation of who I am.

  Mike Matheny

  Who I Am, Giving, Foundation

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• Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

  Goldwin Smith

  Historical, Ancient, Instruments

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