Excellence Quotes - Page 7

• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Weed, Marijuana, Vices

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

  David Halberstam

  America, Quality, Paper

  David Halberstam (2012). “The Powers That Be”, p.538, Open Road Media

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• There is only one boss. The customer.

  Sam Walton

  Business, Loyal Customers, Boss

  "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

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• Excellence does not begin in Washington.

  Ronald Reagan

  Doe, Presidency

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• What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

  Sophocles

  Luxury, House, Prosperous

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• Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

  Hesiod

  Sports, Lying, Sweat

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• The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

  Sallust

  Fleeting, Riches, Splendid

  Sallust (1921). “Sallust”

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• America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

  Paul Tsongas

  Memorial Day, Compassion, America

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• The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

  Lloyd Grossman

  Dark, Moon, Sides

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

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• The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

  Charles Garfield

  Thinking, Differences, Facts

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• If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

  Shepherd Mead

  Want, Planets, Superb

  Shepherd Mead (1974). “How to Get to the Future Before it Gets to You”

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• Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Found

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• Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

  Colin Powell

  Attitude, Perfection, Prevailing

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Education, Moving

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• The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

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• Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly, by “doin' what comes naturally”; and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

  John W. Gardner

  Greatness, Discipline, People

  "Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?".

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• Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

  Vince Lombardi

  Truth, Mind, Sacred

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education

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• If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.

  Hope Solo

  Soccer, Football, Dream

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• Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

  Jan Carlzon

  Mean, Quality, Strive

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• My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

  John Kluge

  Philosophy, Perfection, Pursuit

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• Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.

  Tony Buzan

  Opportunity, Discipline, People

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• Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

  Samuel Johnson

  Encouragement, Hard Work, Lifetime

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• From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Stars, Fate, Men

  "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Lying, Mediocrity, Taste

  'Curiosities of Literature' (9th ed., 1834) 'On Quotation'

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• Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

  John W. Gardner

  Greatness, People, Perfection

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.103, Pickle Partners Publishing

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