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| Excellence Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. | Antoninus | Marcus |
| 2 | With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. | Aristotle | |
| 3 | It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult -- to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult). | Aristotle | |
| 4 | Excellence can be attained if you: Care more than you think is wise, risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, expect more than others think is possible. | Author Unknown | |
| 5 | It is better to never to begin a good work than, having begun it, to stop. | Bede | |
| 6 | Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone expects of you. Never excuse yourself. | Beecher | Henry Ward |
| 7 | Faith is loyalty to some inspired Teacher, some spiritual Hero. And what therefore is loyalty proper, the life-breath of all society, but an efficence of Hero-worship, submissive admiration for the truly great? Society is founded on Hero-worship. | Carlyle | |
| 8 | Show our critics a great man, a Luther for example, and they begin what they call 'account' for him; not to worhsip him, but take the dimensions of him and bring him out to be a little kind of man! | Carlyle | |
| 9 | To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness. | Tolstoy | Leo |
| 10 | True great genius is always accompanied with good sense. | Boswell | James |
| 31 quotations on Excellence |

