Top 100 Excellence Is Quotes
#1. A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.
Caterina Fake
#2. It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason
W.C. Fields
#3. To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#4. Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
Paul J. Meyer
#5. CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.
Fabiola Gianotti
#6. The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed.
Archibald Marwizi
#7. If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.
Neil Postman
#8. 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
#10. A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
Michael Faraday
#12. The question is, do you have deliberate plans for your life? Do you have intentions with you time? God planned that there should be a time for everything and for every season, meaning you can plan for everything and every season in your life! You may ask, 'Is that possible?" I say, "It's up to you!
Archibald Marwizi
#13. True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
Vince Lombardi
#14. As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs of our citizens, so I don't want to mess with a system that is working well for us.
Bill Smith
#15. Everything big, once started little. Discipline yourself and work to become an excellent person at what you want. Stretch yourself daily and go a little further than yesterday. Growth is the key to winning success.
Mark LaMoure
#16. To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#17. Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it,
feel it, and hate in silence.
Washington Allston
#18. Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.
Conor McGregor
#19. It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
Brad Henry
#20. There is no point knowing your mission if you cannot see the area of need for that mission.
Archibald Marwizi
#21. The major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters mediocrity. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.
M.J. Ryan
#22. You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.
Greg Plitt
#23. Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Hesiod
#24. Your excellence is what will leave your competition clueless.
Your uniqueness is what will leave your competition speechless.
Your brilliance is what will leave your competition breathless.
Your transcendence is what will leave your competition lifeless.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. Creativity should be integral to everything that we do. Creativity should also be intrinsic to our personality, if excellence is what we seek.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#26. Success can never be enjoyed if there is no congruity or alignment of your beliefs, values and how you behave in attaining your achievements.
Archibald Marwizi
#27. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us [...], because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning.
Edmund Burke
#28. The "Excellence Standard" is not about Grand Outcomes. In Zenlike terms, all we have is today. If the day's work cannot be assessed as Excellent, then the oceanic overall goal of Excellence has not been advanced. Period.
Tom Peters
#29. Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".
Sherman Alexie
#30. The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.
Jim Tressel
#31. Buddha, Confucius, or Socrates can bring us good teaching, moral excellence, and religious philosophy. For this they may be commended as rendering help and aid to humanity. But Jesus Christ is different: He brings us Himself as our Life.
Chip Brogden
#32. 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
#33. The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.
Ted Malloch
#35. 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
#36. There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
John Stuart Mill
#37. A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God; but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His.
William Law
#38. The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.
Price Pritchett
#39. One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people.
Tom Peters
#40. Commitment to excellence is a great habit; unfortunately commitment to mediocrity is also a habit.
Debasish Mridha
#41. There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!
Israelmore Ayivor
#42. Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Aristotle.
#44. The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
Tom Peters
#47. All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Samuel Richardson
#48. By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.
Plato
#49. I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation ... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.
Sam Altman
#50. Excellence is not a success but a persistent pursuit of perfection.
Debasish Mridha
#51. If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.
Robert Forster
#52. 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
#53. A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.
Sharon Robinson
#54. You can use and see the power of words contributing towards your success, and this comes from having an empowering belief system. Living and functioning from an empowering belief system is the spring board for making your success more deliberate.
Archibald Marwizi
#55. Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet B. Braiker
#57. I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.
Robert Lyn Nelson
#58. The reward for goal-setting is that as you achieve each goal, you feel in charge of your own destiny, with every moment taken up productively. Self-esteem increases and it becomes easier to remain motivated. So set those high goals and make clear plans for their execution.
Archibald Marwizi
#59. Timing is a critical issue when it comes to succession. Passing the baton too early or too late could both cause irreparable damage. The timing just has to be right, but again you are responsible for creating or influencing the right conditions over the course of your leadership tenure.
Archibald Marwizi
#60. It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
Pankaj Patel
#61. What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit?
Richard Wilbur
#62. When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#63. A service culture doesn't happen by accident. The company is always a reflection of the person at the helm. Their attitude, their values, and their commitment to service excellence will drive the actions of others in the organization. Always has ... always will.
Mac Anderson
#64. Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
Aristotle.
#65. Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.
Jim Harbaugh
#66. The history of life is a story of massive removal followed by differentiation within a few surviving stocks, not the conventional tale of steadily increasing excellence, complexity, and diversity.
Stephen Jay Gould
#67. No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#68. Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.
Leo Strauss
#70. The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
William Arthur Ward
#71. people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." And best of all
Essany, Michael
#72. The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.
Woody Allen
#73. Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
William Shakespeare
#74. A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!
Sid Caesar
#75. There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.
Charles De Gaulle
#76. You have the ability to shine and make a mark in some field. Your job is to find your niche, excel and build a lasting legacy.
Roopleen
#77. Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.
Kevin W. Pearson
#78. Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most
we can hope for is excellence.
Carl Jung
#79. I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.
Rafe Esquith
#80. Leadership is no longer about your position.
It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference
You can lead without a title
Robin Sharma
#81. The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
Thomas Jefferson
#82. In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
Jane Austen
#83. How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
Hafez
#84. For excellence, the presence of others is always required.
Hannah Arendt
#85. Nobody reaches expert status without intense preparation. Excellence, then, is a matter of practice, not talent.6
Jeff Goins
#86. When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.
Ernest L. Boyer
#87. Attitude is the mind-set, the kind of thoughts you process and meditate on, to generate the kind of feelings you have towards life, people and issues. This is what makes you do what you do in the way you do it.
Archibald Marwizi
#88. Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection
in practically anything
is both neurotic and futile.
Ed Bliss
#89. Be in love with what you do. Love wisdom. Love life. Love people. God is love.
Archibald Marwizi
#90. You need to realize there will always be beliefs that seek to limit and others that seek to stretch you to your highest potential. Just because you cannot see or do something, does not mean it is not there or cannot be done.
Archibald Marwizi
#91. The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.
Ed Bliss
#92. While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.
Joshua Reynolds
#93. Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#94. The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.
Sun Tzu
#95. And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.
John Dryden
#96. If you are not sure or you don't know something, politely ask. Asking is not a sign of being daft, but of confidence.
Archibald Marwizi
#97. There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.
Jacques Ellul
#98. I have excellent information and proof relating to conduct of the FBI, .. I can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this case is an FBI cover-up.
Zacarias Moussaoui
#99. A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
Joseph Joubert
#100. It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by reason of its excellence. It is the substantial presence by which Christ is made present without doubt, whole and entire, God and man.
Pope Paul VI
