Quotes with excellence

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  • Booker T. Washington Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Aristotle Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Thomas J. Peters Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • William Shakespeare He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Greg LeMond I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Octavio Paz If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Robert Townsend If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Thomas J. Watson If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Barry Schwartz In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Jane Austen In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Brad Henry It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Herman Melville Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Ben Zobrist Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Joe Paterno Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
    Joe Paterno
    American Football coach
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  • Aeschylus Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Alan Parsons The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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