Excellence quotes

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◆ If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

- Martin Luther King Jr.100

◆ Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.

- Biggie Smalls100

◆ When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

- Joe Paterno99

◆ Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire99

◆ Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

- Joe Paterno99

◆ Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

- Ralph Marston99

◆ By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

- Voltaire99

◆ By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

- Plato99

◆ Excellence can be achieved if you...risk more than others think is safe, love more than others think is wise, dream more than others think is practical, and expect more than others think is possible.

- 99

◆ Excellence Can Be Achieved If You . . . Risk More Than Others Think Is Safe, love More Than Others Think Is Wise, Dream More Than Others Think Is Practical, And Expect More Than Others Think Is Possible.

- Pacifiersucker99

◆ I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, there's something that is within you, there's power within you, that's greater than the world. It will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you. It will clothe you. It will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence, if you let it. Now, that is what I know for sure.

- Michael Beckwith99

◆ Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

- 99

◆ If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyones expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.

- Hope Solo99

◆ Talent is natural. Excellence is choice.

- 99

◆ Men are the best cooks. Because with two eggs, one sausage & a little bit of milk, he can fill a girl's tummy for nine good months.

- Don Kel99