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"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."
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"Excellence is a habit acquired by continuous improvement on the little things you do with a firm belief that it's going to be better than before!"

"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."

"Don't embrace mediocrity, its main charm is to make you fall in love with failure. Speed off - Excellence awaits you at the end of your journey!"

"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."

"Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence."

"I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection."

"Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism."
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"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."

"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."

"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."

"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."

"The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."
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