Excellence Quotes - Page 4

• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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

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• Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.

  Ed Bliss

  Perfection, Alternatives, Mediocrity

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• All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Successful, Men, Thinking

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

  Bayard Taylor

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Degrees

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• Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

  Cory Trepanier

  Inspiration, Hunger

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Perfection, Quality, Anything Worth Having

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

  Quincy Jones

  Habit

  Twitter post from Nov 28, 2016

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• Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

  Charles Kingsley

  Thanksgiving, Self, Virtue

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Town and Country Sermons: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Strong, Equality, Mediocrity

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• All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

  Samuel Richardson

  May, Fancy, Humans

  "Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady".

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• I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

  Nina Simone

  Freedom, Years, Important

  "Nina Simone and the problem with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame" by Hanif Abdurraqib, ew.com. April 12, 2018.

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• I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  God, Work, Technology

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

  Mae West

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Mind, Said

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• Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

  Dolly Parton

  Greatness, Academic Excellence, Individuality

  Song: Tennessee Homesick Blues, Album: The Essential Dolly Parton, Vol. 1

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• Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Persistence, Self Improvement, Littles

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• These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

  Aristotle

  Men, Soul, Way

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• Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Leadership, Dog, Race

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• Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

  Les Brown

  Softball, Perfection, Self Improvement

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• True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Lying, Men

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

  Max Lerner

  Travel, Moving, Greatness

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Discipline

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.29, Jaico Publishing House

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• Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

  John W. Gardner

  Mediocrity, Phases, Strive

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.171, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Running, Average, Risk

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