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"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves."	Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way."	Albert Camus
"Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown."	General Charles De Gaulle
"It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home."	Alvaro de Solva
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."	Stephen Jobs
"I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"The noblest search is the search for excellence."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"There is no real excellence in all this world Which can be separated from right living."	David Star Jordan
"Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that."	Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses? -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men."	Clive Staples Lewis
"After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live."	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."	Kahlil Gibran
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."	Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit."	Aristotle
"Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary."	Warren G. Bennis
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love."	William Hazlitt
"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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