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Quotes About Excellence

I think what Ring of Honor is known for really spoke to me.
~ Tenille Dashwood
J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.
~ Bill Cowher
Every person is born with a seed of greatness.
~ Myles Munroe
If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather
~ Roberto Duran
I have become convinced that the most overlooked tool in our medical arsenal is harnessing the body's own ability to heal through nutritional excellence.
~ Mehmet Oz
Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.
~ Benjamin E. Mays
People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.
~ John F. Kennedy Jr.
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.
~ Shams Tabrizi
Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.
~ John J. Pershing
Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.
~ William Clark
In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
~ Chester W. Nimitz
I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.
~ Howard Hughes
If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.
~ George III
When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?
~ Saadi
If you ever find a man who is better than you are - hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself.
~ David Ogilvy
A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
~ Abbas ibn Firnas
As for a limit to one's labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.
~ Alexander the Great
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
~ Walt Whitman
A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.
~ Chanakya
God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.
~ Shoeless Joe Jackson
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
~ Charles de Gaulle
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty?one that everything afterward savors of anti?climax.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald