Excellence Quotes - Page 32

• Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Crowds, Credibility

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• You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

  Francis Chan

  Thought Provoking, Effort, Moral

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• Passion is a product of the heart. Passion is what helps you when you have a great dream. Passion breeds conviction and turns mediocrity into excellence! Your passion will motivate others to join you in pursuit of your dream. With passion, you will overcome insurmountable obstacles. You will become unstoppable!

  Andy Andrews

  Dream, Passion, Heart

  Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

  Jacques Barzun

  Music, Names, Piano

  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may rise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens; and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.

  Edmund Burke

  Government, May, Firsts

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• The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

  George Lois

  Business, Cynical, Individuality

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• We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work was done. Isn't there any other way of appreciating the process? What if the standard of excellence was how fully present the artist was during the process?

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Appreciation, Artist, Thinking

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• Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

  Plato

  Doe, Wealth

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• The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and still be inside the law. The same thing goes for rules, policies and procedures - you know, the organization's "internal laws." You can "go by the book" and still behave unethically. Still not move beyond mediocrity. High standards-the ethics of excellence-come to life through your basic values, your character, integrity and honesty. Obeying the law is the bare minimum.

  Price Pritchett

  Honesty, Integrity, Moving

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• Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

  Price Pritchett

  Determination, Honesty, Integrity

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• Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

  Socrates

  Blessing, Men, Aka

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• Mediocrity always attacks excellence.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Oct 13, 2012

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• Perfection is not a destination; it's a never-ending process...Enjoy!

  Jim Bouchard

  Inspirational, Perfection, Process

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• Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

  Hesiod

  Writing, Winning, Sweat

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• Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

  Romany Malco

  Ignorance, Wrath, Self

  "A Message to Trayvon Martin Sympathizers". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2013.

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• When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in your struggle to do what's right and ethical. In fact, sometimes even you won't be on your side. You'll wrestle with inner conflict, torn between what you should do and what you want to do. You'll also aggravate other people. Seems when you walk the straight and narrow you always step on someone's toes. Don't count on the ethics of excellence to make you popular.

  Price Pritchett

  Struggle, Your Side, People

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• But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

  Price Pritchett

  Responsibility, Ethical Standards, Organization

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• Excellence is a process, not just an outcome. Sure, we have to hold out for high standards in the products or services we provide. The goods must be more than "good enough." But so must our approach - you know, our methodology, the way we do business and deal with people. How could the ends be considered excellent if we can't be proud of the means?

  Price Pritchett

  Business, Mean, People

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• God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

  Giordano Bruno

  Greatness, World, Earth

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

  Bill Gross

  Years, Track, Investing

  "Bill Gross reportedly earns $290m bonus even as investors withdrew billions from Pimco funds" by Heidi Moore, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2014.

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• Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is
  par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Order, Universal Love

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

  Charles Fourier

  Civilization, Doubt, Method

  "The Social Destiny of Man: Or, Theory of the Four Movements".

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• The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.

  Jim Tressel

  Greatness, Consistency, Tests

  Jim Tressel (2010). “The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life”, p.100, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket guys. With the advice and support of their bean counters, absolutely, but with the final word going to those who live and breathe the customer experience. Passion and drive for excellence will win over the computer-like, dispassionate, analysis-driven philosophy every time.

  Bob Lutz

  Running, Philosophy, Passion

  Bob Lutz (2011). “Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business”, p.8, Penguin

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• I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit.

  Rich Mullins

  Fall, Thinking, Ideas

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