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"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."	Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."	Kahlil Gibran
"Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."	Kahlil Gibran
"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
"No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe."	Harry Gray
"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
"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
"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love."	William Hazlitt
"If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed."	Edwin Holt Hughes
"There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height."	Victor Hugo
"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."	Stephen Jobs
"I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"The noblest search is the search for excellence."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"There is no real excellence in all this world Which can be separated from right living."	David Star Jordan
"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"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.
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that."	Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses? -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men."	Clive Staples Lewis
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Harry Gray	Henry Ward Beecher	Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
Jesse Louis Jackson	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John W(illiam) Gardner
John W. Hanley	Jose Ortega y Gasset	Kahlil Gibran
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marabel Morgan	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mary Bertone	Nelson Boswell	Newt Gingrich
Noel Coward	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Stephen Jobs
Theodore Roosevelt	Victor Hugo	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Václav Havel	Warren G. Bennis	William Hazlitt
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