- Common Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Excellence Quotes
On pursuing and recognizing excellence.
These quotes examine excellence as a habit built through commitment rather than a single achievement, tying a genuinely Good life to sustained effort in one's chosen field. Others reflect on how appreciating excellence in others can shape our own standards.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.
- Navy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a Navy SEAL, and sniper, one of the things I learned was that excellence matters.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020