"Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better."
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"Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise."
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"Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success"
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"Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required."
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"Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant."
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"Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone."
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"It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity."
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"To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult."
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"The excellence of every Art is its intensity."
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"You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards."
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"Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence."
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"Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do."
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"The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit."
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"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
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"A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!"
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"There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties."
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"Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow."
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"Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth."
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"To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian."
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"Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value."
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