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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle
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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle
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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. -John F. Kennedy
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell
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Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. -Joe Paterno
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus
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There is no substitute for excellence - not even success.

Thomas Boswell
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. -Pearl S. Buck
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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

Jane Austen
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. -Pat Riley
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Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

Marva Collins
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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
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A scholar is the favorite of Heaven and of earth;  The excellence of one's country, The happiest of mankind. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

John W. Gardner
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

Ted W. Engstrom
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. -Shana Alexander
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If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.

T. Alan Armstrong
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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. -Booker T. Washington
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To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu
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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

Thomas J. Peters
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I feel very confident about what we can get done here, ... They already have an established tradition and a winning attitude. ... I want to continue the commitment to excellence. -Bill Walton
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Auburn has been a pretty good feeder for swimming excellence.

Chris Plonsky
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We set a standard of design excellence that is the most sophisticated stadium that has ever been built.

Michael Bidwill
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. -Michael J. Fox
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