"Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts."
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"Excellence does not require perfection."
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"Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence."
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"The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words."
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"one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax."
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"Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves."
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"Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success."
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"People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence."
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"There is no excellence in archery without great labour."
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"Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do"
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"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
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"Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection."
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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."
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"Anything worth doing is worth doing well."
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"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do."
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"Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting."
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"Excellence has no sex."
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"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
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"Link yourself to your potential, not to your past."
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"Excellence does not begin in Washington."
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