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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
There are three sportsmen: Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, and Lionel Messi. They perform with excellence, like most of us could never dream of.
In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.
Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.
Most of India is rural; there is a huge population in India not being tapped for their excellence. They have no access to great universities.
If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.
Set out to do three or four things this year with gusto and excellence, rather than doing a dozen things just sufficiently. Trust me on this.
Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.
Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.
Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.
In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.
Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.
My father values talent. He is colorblind and gender neutral. When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, excellence, and effort.
Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.
You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.
Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.
When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.
Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don't even do that.
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
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.
Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.
It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.
If somebody's going to represent our music live, I'd like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.
The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how crappy they feel.
I will work to ensure Duke Energy is positioned to continue its track record of outstanding customer service and operational and financial excellence.
For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever
When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.
Anybody who seeks wealth as an end in itself is always going to be disappointed. What you really should be doing is seeking excellence in achievement.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.
You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.
I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning and excellence in the classroom.