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Excellence Quotes
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
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"Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism."
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"Learn the difference between good and great and then chose greatness."
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"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."
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"Excellence is not a success but a persistent pursuit of perfection."
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"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."
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"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."
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"Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days."
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"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
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"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."
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"Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence."
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"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it."
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"You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out."
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"By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary."
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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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"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."
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"What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts."
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"If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed."
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"Excellence has a loud mouth, let it speak on your behalf."
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"We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent."
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"The greatest excuse you must have is the excuse to do your best to the very best and in a distinctive manner."
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"We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do."
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"Strive for excellence in all that you do; mediocrity has no place in the path to greatness."
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"Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary."
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"If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way."
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"Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process."
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"Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor"."
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"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."
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"The Olympic Games is a celebration of discipline."
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"Excellence is not a history, but a habit."
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"I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself."
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"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!"
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"Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved."
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"Excellence prospers in the absence of excuses."
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"Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence."
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"And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better. If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."
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"I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis."
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"Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness."
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"Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority!"
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"How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it."
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"The noblest search is the search for excellence."
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"Excellent is prasie worthy."
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"Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence."
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"In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman."
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"Those who distinguish themselves in what they do and become disinct always score distinction. Don't follow the crowd. Distinguish yourself with a special commitment and you will excel."
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"No one makes it big without discipline."
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"The wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism."
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"Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work."
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"To be a champion, compete; to be a great champion, compete with the best; but to be the greatest champion, compete with yourself."
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