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| The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. (Pearl Buck The Joy of Children 1964) |
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| In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. (Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 1818) |
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| The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. (Vincent T. Lombardi) |
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| To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. (Sun-Tzu) |
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| Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. (Aristotle) |
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| Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. (Commitment To Excellence) |
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| People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence. (Orison Swett Marden) |
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| Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly. (Author Unknown) |
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| The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes. (Dugald Stewart) |
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| The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. (Bertrand Russell) |
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| Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. (Harriet Braiker) |
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| The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. (John W. Gardner) |
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| The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. (John W. Gardner) |
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| Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. (Alfred North Whitehead) |
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| Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society. (Janet Jackson) |
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| To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. (Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics) |
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| With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. (Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics) |
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| The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. (Sallust The War with Catiline) |
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| It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. (Publilius Syrus) |
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| We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle) |
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| We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. (Aristotle) |
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| Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. (Marabel Morgan) |
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| There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. (David W. Johnson) |
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| Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. (Sun-Tzu) |
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| The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. (Shana Alexander) |
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