Excellence Quotes
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Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?
Lou Holtz
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As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.
John Strachan
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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
Confucius
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As a Navy SEAL, and sniper, one of the things I learned was that excellence matters.
Brandon Webb
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You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.
Daniel Goldin
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True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.
Reggie Jackson
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
Tacitus
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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
Plato
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People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.
Emily Lazar
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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner
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Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
Michael Horton
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I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.
Barack Obama
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Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.
Farrah Gray
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We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
Brian Tracy
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The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.
George Gilder
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Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.
Herb Kohl
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A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.
Carol Mann
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This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
Freya Stark
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I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit.
Rich Mullins
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Demand excellence.
Emmitt Smith
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Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.
William Ellery Channing
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I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.
Lisa Bonet
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Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.
Azim Premji
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Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.
Raymond Loewy