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0055  C
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” — Vince Lombardi
EXCELLENCE, Happiness, Health & Fitness

0056  P
“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.” — Aristotle
EXCELLENCE, Habit

0057
“There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.” — David Starr Jordan
EXCELLENCE, Principles, Goodness

0058
“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein
EXCELLENCE, Character

0059
“Perfection - An imaginary state... distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence.” — Ambrose Bierce
EXCELLENCE, Perception

0060
“The more you do, the more you are.” — Angie Papadakis
EXCELLENCE, Potential, Charity

0061  P
“Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.” — St. Francis de Sales
EXCELLENCE, Potential, Change

0062  C
“To be is to do.” — Socrates
EXCELLENCE, Motivation

0063  C
“To do is to be.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
EXCELLENCE, Motivation

0064  PH
“‘To be is to do.’ - Socrates ‘To do is to be.’ - Jean-Paul Sartre ‘Do be do be do.’ - Frank Sinatra” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
EXCELLENCE, Motivation

0065
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
EXCELLENCE, Happiness, Originality

0066
“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.” — Christopher Morley
EXCELLENCE, Happiness, Attitude, Age

0067  H
“The closest a person ever comes to perfection is when they fill out a job application form.” — Stanley J(ohn) Randall
EXCELLENCE, Humility, Dishonesty

0068
“The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is...Nothing should be able to harm a man but himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.” — Oscar Wilde
EXCELLENCE, Character, Wealth

0069  C
“Respect yourself most of all.” — Pythagoras
EXCELLENCE, Honor

0070
“If people knew how hard I have to work to gain my mastery it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all.” — Michelangelo Buonarroti
EXCELLENCE, Envy, Motivation, Perseverance

0071
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” — Charles Reade
EXCELLENCE, Genius, Love

0072
“We work to become, not to acquire.” — Elbert Hubbard
EXCELLENCE, Wealth

0073
“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.” — W. Somerset Maugham
EXCELLENCE, Potential, Ignorance

EXCELLENCE Cross-References
Fame—1 • Wealth—45 • Motivation—114 • Optimism—128 • Planning—171, 173-175 • Courage—192 • Self-Confidence—198, 204-207 • Adversity—299 • Failure—387, 391 • Attitude—407-410 • Personal Management—441, 444, 448 • Effectiveness—461 • Potential—478-479, 482-489, 491, 493-494, 499-500 • Knowledge—555 • Perception—609-612 • Thought—634 • Vision—644 • Genius—707 • Honesty—794 • Charity—798 • Humility—830 • Anger—835 • Hate—851 • Envy—901 • Ego—912, 927 • Character—935 • Principles—946 • Conscience—982 • God—986 • Accountability—1148, 1163 • Competition—1167 • Reward—1196, 1208 • Punishment—1229 • Government—1269-1270 • Individualism—1343 • Change—1452-1453 • Death—1471, 1474 • Health & Fitness—1480