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(90 votes)   The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Albert Camus

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(89 votes)   The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Lyndon Baines Johnson

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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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(87 votes)   In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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(86 votes)   The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Charles R. Swindoll

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(83 votes)   Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

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(81 votes)   Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Harry S. Truman

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(80 votes)   The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other

Anonymous

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(79 votes)   Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion

G. W. F. Hegel

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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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(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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(74 votes)   Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

Marabel Morgan

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(73 votes)   It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig

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(72 votes)   Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

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