Pursue Excellence Quotes

#1. Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful

Deepak Chopra

#2. 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

#3. In order to pursue excellence one must recognize mediocrity.

Geoffroy Birtz

#4. You pursue excellence when you care about something other than your own excellence.

Michael S. Horton

#5. If you focus on success, you'll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

Deepak Chopra

#6. In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.

Barry Schwartz

#7. It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

Matthew Kelly

#8. Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue excellence, not perfection.

Lloyd Winter

#9. In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Deepak Chopra

#10. Let's pursue excellence together. Let's make art. Let's build the future. Let's be our best selves.

Jo Walton

#11. I also pursue excellence, and Father told me that it can only ever be pursued, never caught - though

Jo Walton

#12. 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

#13. But in a still life, there is no end to our looking, which has become allied with the gaze of the painter; we look in and in, to the world of things, in their ambiance of cool or warm light, in and in, as long as we can stand to look, as long as we take pleasure in looking.

Mark Doty

#14. Stagnation is self-abdication.

Ryan Talbot

#15. Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

Katharine Whitehorn

#16. Dream the impossible.
See the invisible.
Pursue the intangible.
Achieve the incredible.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Why is the world in need of a leader like you? You must lead for significant impact. As a leader, find the "cause" driving your leadership brand and pursue its resolution with passion and excellence.

Archibald Marwizi

#18. Dream the impossible.
See the impossible.
Pursue the impossible.
Achieve the impossible.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

Sia Furler

#20. This is because secrets are terrible things.
Even the simplest ones

Karen Foxlee

#21. Instead of anointing versus excellence, let's pursue excellent singing that is anointed.

Anna Blanc

#22. Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

Vince Lombardi

#23. Those who succeed after a rare opportunity, only succeed on the back of a plan they already had or one they craft and begin to pursue after receiving the windfall.

Archibald Marwizi

#24. If your faith doesn't remove the mountain ... Get to climbing.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#25. Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

Bertrand Russell

#26. The closer you get to excellence in your life, the more friends you'll lose. People love you when you are average, because it makes them comfortable. But when you pursue greatness, it makes people uncomfortable. Be prepared to lose some people on your journey.

Tony Gaskins Jr.

#27. Right there - the hope of bacon is a reason to love life.

Deb Caletti

#28. Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

Aristotle.

#29. It is a great victory that comes without blood.

George Herbert

#30. Cease from envy, prejudice and unhealthy competitiveness. Never abandon your own mission and brand to pursue the seemingly exciting mission or vision of another.

Archibald Marwizi

#31. Encouragement fuels great strength and great achievement.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. I take pleasure in an excellent work done.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#34. Now did you know if a stick insect laid it's eggs in a jar of Bovril it will give birth to a litter of twiglets.

Tim Vine

#35. Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.

Robert Galbraith

#36. If you take it step by step, you shall least miss a step!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#37. Just wonderin', waitin', worryin' about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.

Tom Petty

#38. 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