Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.
That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.
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