Excellence

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As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.
 Joseph Farrell
 Lectures of a Certain Professor,

I've looked at life from both sides now, From win and lose and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall; I really don't know life at all.
 Joni Mitchell
 Both Sides Now, 1967

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other; on the contrary, they are twin sisters.
 Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
 Letters to Young Men,

(Louis XVIII's courtiers) have forgotten nothing and learned nothing.
 Charles F duPerier
 Dumouriez, 1795

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
 Oscar Wilde
 Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892

Badness you can get easily, and in quantity: the road is smooth and it lies close by. But in front of excellence, the gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.
 Hesiod
 -700

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what he does with what happens to him.
 Aldous Huxley
 1932

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
 Henry Ward Beecher
 

Most of the important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
 Harold Taylor
 

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
 W B Yeats
 The Second Coming, 1921

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
 Aristotle
 

No crime's so great as daring to excel.
 Charles Churchill
 1763

The light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 Table Talk, 1831

See Also Achievement Mediocrity

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