Top 100 Excellence Is Quotes
#1. A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
Michael Faraday
#2. The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
Charles R. Swindoll
#4. The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
Christopher Wren
#6. Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.
David Oyelowo
#7. The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
Aristotle.
#8. Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
Tom Peters
#9. The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.
Josh Waitzkin
#10. Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.
Charles R. Swindoll
#11. Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly quite as well as another; if a high one, individual excellence is to be regarded.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. Excellence is not an act, but habit.
Aristotle.
#13. Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#14. Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.
Randy Anderson
#15. As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published or patents received. Outsiders who swoop in to count beans and make up lists based on statistics have little sense of what excellence is.
Henry Rosovsky
#18. Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle.
#19. The sum total of excellence is knowledge
Hazrat Ali
#20. The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#21. I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.
Kanye West
#22. Mediocrity is your enemy,
satisfactory is your acquaintance,
excellence is your friend,
and genius is your soul mate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#23. The potential of this nation is as boundless as the imagination and drive of the American people ... Quality management is not just a step. It must be a new style of working. Even a new style of thinking. The dedication to quality and excellence is more than good business; it's a way of life.
George H. W. Bush
#25. I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.
William Benton Clulow
#26. Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a 'stalker's eye,' but which, par excellence, is the soldier's eye.
Robert Baden-Powell
#27. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Brian Cox
#28. A gift of excellence is designed to stretch your ability to soar like an eagle.
Euginia Herlihy
#29. I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.
Jay-Z
#30. Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.
Andy Hargreaves
#31. Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
#32. Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid "judgments," you'll find that you have nothing to say.
Steven Pressfield
#33. But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.
Dave Heineman
#34. Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey
#36. Spirit of excellence is a rare gift that goes extra mile tirelessly.
Euginia Herlihy
#37. It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.
Samuel Butler
#38. In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.
Criss Jami
#39. Excellence is a Journey, from a single step to 1000 miles each. God, the perfect creator views, in one glance from the top, and manages all sets of steps or miles to a natural an eternal Harmony.
Priyavrat Thareja
#40. Achieving excellence is being passionate about what you're doing and working so hard that they have to hire two people to replace you.
Charlie Trotter
#42. Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.
Daniel R. Scoggin
#44. The difference between mediocrity and excellence is often a matter of effort.
Diana Waring
#46. When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.
Sarah Vowell
#47. Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.
Jeff Henderson
#48. Too much happiness, too much unhappiness, out of due time, men are thrown off balance. What will they do next? Thought runs wild. No control. They start everything, finish nothing. Here competition begins, here the idea of excellence is born, and robbers appear in the world.
Thomas Merton
#49. Once you understand what excellence is all about ... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline.
Joe Rogan
#50. Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.
Lee Ellis
#51. Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.
Albert Einstein
#52. In fact, in an agile project, technical excellence is measured by both capacity to deliver customer value today and create an adaptable product for tomorrow.
Jim Highsmith
#53. Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
Edward R. Tufte
#54. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.
Alan Kulwicki
#55. Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
Michael Horton
#56. Striving for perfection is neurotic; striving for excellence is progress. Excellence is continuous improvement. There is nothing that cannot be done better or improved the next time.
Shiv Khera
#57. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
#58. I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
Edsger Dijkstra
#59. 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
#60. The only way when your thirst for excellence is satisfied is when you take up the challenge to do a little more every day than you have already been doing every day!
Israelmore Ayivor
#61. The true democrat wishes to share the great works of culture with all who are able to appreciate them; the egalitarian, recognizing that genuine excellence is rare, declares greatness a fraud and sets about obliterating distinctions.
Roger Kimball
#62. 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
#63. If excellence is achieved in the form of execution and performance, winning will frequently follow.
Robert C. Schneider
#64. Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
Melody Beattie
#65. Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.
Charlie Trotter
#66. Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.
Terry Orlick
#67. The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
David Ogilvy
#68. Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.
Aristotle.
#69. The result of all this turmoil is that product excellence is now paramount to business success - not control of information, not a stranglehold on distribution, not overwhelming marketing power (although these are still important).
Eric Schmidt
#70. The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Sallust
#71. The difference between perfection and excellence is one can actually be achieved.
Rodo Sofranac
#72. Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.
Samuel Johnson
#74. Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Rick Pitino
#75. Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.
Harlan Ellison
#76. If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#78. Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Marva Collins
#79. Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.
Chanakya
#80. Success is a choice; you choose it and work it out! Excellence is deliberate and so it is intentionally pursued. No successful person ever remained idle for success to knock his/her door for him/her
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. Excellence is renewed through deliberate practice, day in and day out.
Eric Greitens
#82. The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand, and nobody cares about its color.
Daniel James Jr.
#83. Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.
Bill Johnson
#85. In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
Jane Austen
#86. How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
Hafez
#87. 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
#88. The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.
Ed Bliss
#89. 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
#92. Empowering children through the Word of God so excellence is the standard not the exception
Jacqui Wilson
#94. Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
Price Pritchett
#95. Excellence is not one off thing, it is a life style that gives you the ability to grow and reach the unreachable.
Euginia Herlihy
#97. The Highest Reward for men and women 's devotion and dedication to excellence is not what one gets from it but what one he or she becomes through it.
Bill Britt
#98. Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs
Masato
#99. Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
Ted Engstrom
#100. 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
