Excellence Is Achieved Quotes

#1. If excellence is achieved in the form of execution and performance, winning will frequently follow.

Robert C. Schneider

#2. Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission.

Robin Sharma

#3. Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact, there was never such a year. The language of Chaucer's or Shakespeare's time was no better and no worse than that of our own - just different.

Jean Aitchison

#4. Many a time, you may not even have to speak, however difficult the situation; your goatee speaks for you.

Pawan Mishra

#5. Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

Gerald R. Ford

#6. Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.

Machado De Assis

#7. All who have achieved excellence in art possess one thing in common; that is, a mind to be one with nature, throughout the seasons.

Matsuo Basho

#8. This place is starting to feel like a home away from home," Rusty said, settling on the sofa. "We come here, we discuss evil sorcerers, we eat packets of peanuts. It's a soothing and familiar routine. Or it would be if people would just bring me some peanuts.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#9. School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Robert C. Merton

#10. You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

Colin Powell

#11. The difference between perfection and excellence is one can actually be achieved.

Rodo Sofranac

#12. Excellence must be achieved through the eyes of those who judge us; once achieved it can only be maintained with constant innovation.

Tom Collins

#13. Sometimes you wonder when your handsome prince is going to show up and rescue you.

Alex Flinn

#14. This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. The subversive idea at the centre of Ericsson's work is that excellence is not reserved for the lucky few but can be achieved by almost all of us.

Matthew Syed

#16. Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

Louise Brooks

#17. She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.

William Congreve

#18. The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.

Saul D. Alinsky

#19. Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Thomas Huxley

#20. Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

George Foreman