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"A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action."	Václav Havel
"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
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."	Stephen Jobs
"Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success? Indeed it does not! ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind."	John W. Hanley
"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion."	William Cullen Bryant
"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.
"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
"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."	Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness."	Athenæus
"Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state."	Edmund Burke
"Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way."	Albert Camus
"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength."	Henry Ward Beecher
"I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me."	Adolf Hitler
"I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them."	Blaise Pascal
"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics."	Newt Gingrich
"If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill."	Theodore Roosevelt
"If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed."	Edwin Holt Hughes
"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
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