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Excellence can be attained if you care more than others think is wise,
Risk more than others think is safe,
Dream more than others think is practical, and
Expect more than others think is possible.
-Anon.
also called: Cadet Maxim
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Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty.
-Proverb
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
-Shana Alexander
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-Aristotle
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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
-Aristotle
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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.
-Bob Beamon
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.
-Ivan Benson
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
-Wendell Berry
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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
-Ken Blanchard
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All you owe the public is a good performance.
-Humphrey Bogart
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Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.
-Dean Briggs
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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.
-Les Brown
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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
-Andrew Carnegie
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I can do small things in a great way.
-James Freeman Clarke
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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.
-Francis Darwin
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
-Isaac Disraeli
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I start where the last man left off.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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There's a way to do better... find it.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
-Albert Einstein
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Books about Excellence
