Quotes with excellence

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

  John W. Gardner
  American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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• When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

  Denis Diderot
  French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

  W. M. Thackeray
  Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• superstition
• appreciation
• temperate
• dulling
• goodbye
• poetry

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