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Excellence Quotes by Joe Paterno
- Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.
- Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured…
- Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
- Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
- When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
More Excellence Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is… — Walter Bagehot
- No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of… — Charles Kendall Adams
- I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there. — Tyra Banks
- It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become… — Joseph Addison
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be… — Warren G. Bennis