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(290 votes)   -The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Charles Darwin

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(87 votes)   ...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the wrong beliefs.

F.A. Hayek

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(366 votes)   A real act of honesty is not enough to be honored by everyone, but being witnessed by you and God alone.

Czeonollo

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(76 votes)   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 Lombardi

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(101 votes)   All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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(451 votes)   America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

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(158 votes)   As the rest of the world is walking out the door, your best friend's are the ones walking in.

Anonymous

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(223 votes)   Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Stephen Jobs

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(96 votes)   Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness

Rev. Randall R. Mcbride Jr.

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(76 votes)   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.

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(89 votes)   Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

Albert Camus

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(108 votes)   I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence.

Lyndon Baines Johnson

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(66 votes)   I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.

Roger Zelazny

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(60 votes)   If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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(218 votes)   Ignorance is dangerous, but knowledge without responsibility is more dangerous.

Bruce B. Clark

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