Excellence Quotes - Page 29

• Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Inspirational Life, Lying, War

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• Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Art, Perspective

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• Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

  Jack Welch

  Positive, Honesty, Integrity

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• Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Emotional, Evil People, Soul

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• Style is the perfection of a point of view.

  Richard Eberhart

  Fashion, Views, Clothes

  Richard Eberhart (1965). “Selected poems, 1930-1965”

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• The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

  William Arthur Ward

  Leadership, Basketball, Motivation

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.

  Charles Hodge

  Faith, Christian, Joy

  Charles Hodge (2013). “Romans”, p.160, Ravenio Books

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• When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Country, Teaching

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Country, Teacher

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Today, Gains

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

  Frank Rizzo

  Teacher, Couple, Needs

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• Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

  James C. Collins

  Leadership, Motivation, Organization

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• Excellence is the result of habitual integrity.

  Lennie Bennett

  Motivational, Integrity, Results

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• The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a great influence upon the neighboring sciences, pure and applied, and on this ground physical chemistry may be regarded as an excellent school of exact reasoning for all students of the natural sciences.

  Svante Arrhenius

  School, Science, May

  Svante Arrhenius (1912). “Theories of Solutions”

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• The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

  Lawrence M. Miller

  Creativity, Organization, Achievement

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• Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue excellence, not perfection.

  Lloyd (Bud) Winter

  Spiritual, Mistake, Perfection

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• A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

  John of the Cross

  Love, Christian, Spiritual

  Saint John of the Cross (1957). “The dark night of the soul”

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• It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by reason of its excellence. It is the substantial presence by which Christ is made present without doubt, whole and entire, God and man.

  Pope Paul VI

  Real, Men, Doubt

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• Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.

  George S. Patton

  Country, War, Men

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• A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

  Tom Flores

  Life, Motivational Sports, Commitment

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• The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only be attained through Hours and Hours of hard work perfecting your talent as a craft. Which is why Talent will fail you without skill.

  Will Smith

  Hard Work, Commitment, Skills

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• I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Commitment, Government

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.108, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won. Yet that victory might be pursued and wooed with every fiber of our body, with every bit of our might and all our effort. And each week, there is a new encounter; each day, there is a new challenge.

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Commitment, Sacrifice

  Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.7, McGraw Hill Professional

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• They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational Sports, Teaching, Coaching

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

  Michael Dell

  Motivational, Business, Years

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