Top 93 Best Excellence Quotes
#1. Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises ... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Herman Melville
#2. If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.
John Ridley
#3. Never settle for anything less than your best.
Brian Tracy
#4. God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.
Robert Collyer
#5. Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.
Mike Ditka
#6. There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.
Max Lucado
#8. Find what you're good at. whatever it is, and become excellent at it. Excellence isn't magic - it's habit, the by product of doing something over and over and striving to be the best at it. Simply figure out what your passion is, and resolve to make excellence your habit.
Lauren Rowe
#9. Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
Laurence Olivier
#10. How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.
Dan Miller
#11. Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.
Wayne Thiebaud
#12. Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can.
Stephen Kendrick
#16. If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.
Raymond Loewy
#17. Simply giving something 'a shot' is not giving something our 'best,' for our best is made up of as many 'shots' as it takes in order to be our best.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#18. Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Marva Collins
#19. And the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).
Richard Baxter
#21. Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.
A.E. Housman
#22. Pitchers don't need to hit well; they need to pitch well. Every step you create needs to do what it does best and nothing more. Focus allows you to pursue excellence, to zero in on the target. You can ruin a great pitcher by trying to make a hitter out of him, and you can ruin a great church ...
Andy Stanley
#23. No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
Thomas Carlyle
#24. I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people ... If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
Jack Welch
#25. Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
Robert A. Heinlein
#26. In Music Through the Eyes of Faith, Harold Best defines excellence as "the process of becoming better than I once was.
Bob Kauflin
#27. But if you're striving for excellence - whether it's in playing the guitar or flying a jet - there's no such thing as over-preparation. It's your best chance of improving your odds. In
Chris Hadfield
#28. Fantasize and start dream building. Bring your dreams into material reality. See yourself at your best. Transform yourself with dedication and work for excellence.
Mark LaMoure
#29. Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.
David Oyelowo
#30. In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.
Michael Ray
#31. Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.
Randy Anderson
#32. Do your best at every job. Don't sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.
Steve Jobs
#33. Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.
Farrah Gray
#34. Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.
Joyce Meyer
#35. Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.
Randy Anderson
#36. Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#37. Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.
Plato
#38. Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.
Timothy Murphy
#39. Develop yourself from practice to become exceptional. Aim to be the blue ribbon best.
Mark LaMoure
#41. 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
#42. We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.
Melody Beattie
#43. Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey
#44. Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.
Baltasar Gracian
#45. Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
Edwin Louis Cole
#46. Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
Henry Ford II
#48. There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.
Jo Walton
#49. As I tell my children, 'If you are going to do something, do your best while you're doing it.
Michelle Moore
#50. Ideally, Competition should be a wonderful vicious circle of being inspired and inspiring others to achieve excellence and being the best version of themselves.
Tina Sequeira
#51. Don't tolerate any form of average. Don't accept Dis-excellence. Don't stand for mediocre. If you're going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.
Robin Sharma
#52. If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.
Robert Forster
#53. Excellence in life, is like a play. For your real life play, the quality of the actors you bring on your life's stage, determine your success. Always choose the best, most excellent actors.
Mark LaMoure
#54. Make success happen by striving and working to be the best. Aim at excellence and hit the target.
Mark LaMoure
#55. people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." And best of all
Essany, Michael
#56. The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.
Charles Darwin
#57. Start dream building. Raise your standards to excellence. Imagine yourself at your best and work on self-improvement. Transform yourself to a higher state of being, by concentrating on becoming excellent at what you want.
Mark LaMoure
#58. I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.
Evelyn Waugh
#59. No matter what, be the best, strive for excellence without rest.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.
Kent Conrad
#61. Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way.
Jack Johnson
#62. Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.
Woodrow Wilson
#63. Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
Chris Evert
#64. You tend to become that, what you want most. Look to the light of God, expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen with devotion and dedication. You can do it.
Mark LaMoure
#65. If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.
Plato
#66. You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.
George Foreman
#69. For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes ...
Francis Kurkdjian
#71. In philosophy, phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Wine blind tasting is the best phenomenology, phenomenology par excellence, returning us from our heads into the world, and, at the same time, teaching us the methods of the mind.
Neel Burton
#72. Sometimes we have to wait for years to seek a really exceptional thing. I always wanted to give you the best thing in the world but ...
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#73. I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah Winfrey
#74. It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.
LeRoy Neiman
#76. Start dream building. See yourself at you best. Transform yourself with determination.
Mark LaMoure
#77. You become like that, what you admire most. By admiring excellence and practicing, it can boost you to become excellent.
Mark LaMoure
#78. People who believe in excellence are full of patience, they are passionate of what they do and they don't cut corners. They invest their time in pursuit of being the best in everything they do.
Euginia Herlihy
#80. You first compete with yourself before competing against others; if you cannot beat your last best result, do not be surprised if it seems difficult to compete against external competitors.
Archibald Marwizi
#81. You should aspire to a level of personal excellence - to be the best you can be. You should aspire to have the richest life you can get in terms of fulfillment, happiness and peace.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#82. People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.
Robert Cheeke
#83. So our definition of manliness, like that of the ancients, is simple: striving for virtue, honor, and excellence in all areas of your life, fulfilling your potential as a man, and being the absolute best brother, friend, husband, father and citizen you can be.
Brett McKay
#84. Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.
Goldwin Smith
#85. The Good of Man comes to be "a working of the Soul in the way of Excellence," or, if Excellence admits of degrees, in the way of the best and most perfect Excellence.
Aristotle.
#86. All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.
Virginia Woolf
#88. Understand you are neither inferior nor superior; you are just the best of who you are supposed to be. You have set standards for yourself and are ready to meet them.
Archibald Marwizi
#89. Let's pursue excellence together. Let's make art. Let's build the future. Let's be our best selves.
Jo Walton
#90. Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark ...
Orison Swett Marden
#91. The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ
Thomas Chalmers
#92. he had always felt that the best units were those that had traditions of excellence that every member could aspire to. Few were those who both saw the birth of those traditions and who realized just what it was they were seeing. Something told him, deep inside, that he was now among those few.
Evan Currie
#93. It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.
W. Edwards Deming
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