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(69 votes)   The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John William Gardner

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(69 votes)   To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?

William Thackeray

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(68 votes)   Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.

General Charles De Gaulle

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(68 votes)   Veracity is the heart of morality.

Thomas Henry Huxley

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(67 votes)   To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

George Stanley McGovern

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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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(64 votes)   The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

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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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(60 votes)   The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Vincent Thomas Lombardi

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(60 votes)   What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Richard Milhouse Nixon

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(58 votes)   Most certification today is pure 'credentialism.' [It] must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment.

William John Bennett

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(56 votes)   There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity

Buck Rodgers

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(54 votes)   The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

Mary Bertone

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