#excel

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential. ↗

— Brad Henry

#excellence #expectations #full #only #our

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#excel #first #life #lives #man

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it. ↗

— Hesiod

#close #easily #excellence #front #get

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#creating #creative #equality #everything #excellence

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#elegance #excellent #fondness #had #his

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#always #anybody #around #beyond #could

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. ↗

— David Hume

#circumstance #circumstances #excellent #happy #his

Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#foreign #ideals #lies #native #use

The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend. ↗

— John Hutton

#best #best way #both #businesses #civil