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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass
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It's not who you are, it's what you do that matters
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Todd Cloutier
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And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. Nelson Mandela
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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 your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Contribution #3764
I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.
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Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1967
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God's business.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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I’ve never bought the “lowest common denominator” image of popular art. Too many artists worry that popularity is the same as being “middle of the road.” I’m much more into the idea that the middle is the highest point. On a map, the center of a mountain is its peak. You need to climb very high to get there.
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
"Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.
I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
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Contribution #2206
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Superior luck is not human greatness, only a stepping stone toward it. The stone is given; the stepping is done by the sweat of one’s brow and is made of a million steps, uphill. To work one’s way up to greatness is comparable to conquering Mount Everest, the highest peak of the Himalayas. It is an outstanding achievement with a sense of pride to match.
There can be greatness in apparent smallness and smallness in apparent greatness; the truth resides in the great or small actualization of one’s potential, whatever it is.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Good is not good where better is expected.
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Every job is a portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Viewed on April 7, 2008
Contribution #183
What does excellence look like in a person?
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