Excellence Quotes - Page 34

• Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Men, Fit

  Woodrow Wilson (1929). “When a Man Comes to Himself”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Littles, Can Do, Superiority

  "Exceptional Employee".

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• Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Common, Great Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1896). “Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty”

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• It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Artist, Men, Average

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.389, e-artnow

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• Hey, size works against excellence.

  Bill Gates

  Hey, Size

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• Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Learning, Character

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions”, p.11

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• Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

  Henry Royce

  Acceptance, Persistence, Creating

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• Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best

  Henry Ford

  Running, Believe, Long

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• Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest

  Katharine Hamnett

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• Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it

  Charles Sheldon

  Morning, Yesterday, Competition

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• One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man's reason can a movement succeed.

  Samuel Gompers

  Men, Relief, Succeed

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• Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.

  William Matthews

  Men, Dwarves, Giants

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• In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

  Tacitus

  Men, Moral, Peace And Quiet

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 1,

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• The rocks are where they are- and this is their will. The rivers flow- and this is their will. The birds fly- this is their will. Human beings talk- this is their will. The seasons change, heaven sends down rain or snow, the earth occasionally shakes, the waves roll, the stars shine- each of them follows its own will. To be is to will and so is to become.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Stars, Rain, Rocks

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• I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

  Vanna Bonta

  Mirrors, Achievement, Virtue

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• Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Men, Ordinary, Littles

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• The difference in being good at some thing and being great at something is usually found in the little things.

  Randy Anderson

  Differences, Littles, Little Things

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• Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Unforgettable, Excellent, Nobody Knows

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• Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.

  Earl Nightingale

  Children, Growing Up, Spring

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• Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful.

  Richard Tyler

  Determination, Commitment, Matter

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

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• The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Heart, Years, Creating

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

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• True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Ideas, Risk

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• What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?

  Alexi Murdoch

  Block, Gestation Period, Creative

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• If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

  Tom Peters

  What If, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Tom Peters from May 19, 2013

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