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EXCELLENCE

"Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best."
-Anon.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
-Aristotle

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning."
-Hesiod, Works and Days

"Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters."
-Jean Baptiste Lacordaire, Letters to Young Men

"Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success."
-Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

"Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do."
N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.
-Shaquille ONeal

"There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few."
-Janet Erskine Stuart

"God is in the details."
-Mies van der Rohe, "New York Times", August 19, 1969