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If the firstborn can't excel at what the family values, for example, that position could shift to another child. – Catherine Salmon	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It was presumed because of her special condition, she would never excel and never achieve and great feat, yet watching our daughter walk across the stage at Bishop McNamara High School with honors, then going to Ball State and graduating with honors, then graduating at Syracuse with honors, and then staying here in Southeast Washington D.C., when she could have gone anywhere. – Ken McClendon	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's been a great week, match play is a format that I've always enjoyed. I feel it's a format that I do well in and I excel in. – Rory McIlroy	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Doesn’t the Air Force think that with the proper training I or my peers couldn’t excel as drone pilots? right now, the minimum height-limit starts at 5’4?. My daughter is 5’2?. What difference does it make what height you are when you are flying a drone? You are not actually sitting in an airplane. – Priscilla Moreland	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. – John Milton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by. – Hazlitt	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. – Vince Lombardi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are. – Nancy Lopez	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. – Vince Lombardi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The will to excel and the will to win, they endure. They are more important than any events that occasion them. – Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. – Vince Lombardi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. – Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort. – Weinbaum	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible. – Josephine demott Robinson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. – Faith Sullivan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. – William Hazlitt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. – Plutarch	added by anonymous 14 years ago

If the firstborn can't excel at what the family values, for example, that position could shift to another child.

– Catherine Salmon

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It was presumed because of her special condition, she would never excel and never achieve and great feat, yet watching our daughter walk across the stage at Bishop McNamara High School with honors, then going to Ball State and graduating with honors, then graduating at Syracuse with honors, and then staying here in Southeast Washington D.C., when she could have gone anywhere.

– Ken McClendon

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's been a great week, match play is a format that I've always enjoyed. I feel it's a format that I do well in and I excel in.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Doesn’t the Air Force think that with the proper training I or my peers couldn’t excel as drone pilots? right now, the minimum height-limit starts at 5’4?. My daughter is 5’2?. What difference does it make what height you are when you are flying a drone? You are not actually sitting in an airplane.

– Priscilla Moreland

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

– John Milton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

– Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.

– Hazlitt

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

– Vince Lombardi

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

– Nancy Lopez

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

– Vince Lombardi

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The will to excel and the will to win, they endure. They are more important than any events that occasion them.

– Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

– Vince Lombardi