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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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"Always be excellent and you'll rise above the rest."
"Remember, each of us needs to be the best in our field."
"Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?"
"Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress."
"Become so good they can't ingore you, and you are on the path to success. Become so good they can't stand you, and you are on the path to greatness."
"Excellence is not an event but a habit."
"What does easy or hard have to do with anything? Excellence is your standard."
"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."
"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."
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"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you."
"Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment."
"The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it."
"Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue."
"Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me."
"I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive."
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