Top 100 Quotes About Excellence
#1. one could not attain greater personal excellence without also paving the way for everyone else in society to attain it as well.
Christopher Phillips
#2. To be profitable, practice diligence.
To be successful, practice excellence.
To be influential, practice intelligence.
To be honorable, practice prudence.
To be blissful, practice kindness.
To be joyful, practice goodness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#3. Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind".
Onyi Anyado
#4. In Music Through the Eyes of Faith, Harold Best defines excellence as "the process of becoming better than I once was.
Bob Kauflin
#5. The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.
Horace
#6. But if, instead, you define genius as working toward excellence, ceaselessly, with every element of your being - then, in fact, my dad is a genius, and so am I, and so is Coates, and, if you're willing, so are you.
Angela Duckworth
#8. The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.
Dick Devenzio
#9. To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.
Ernest L. Boyer
#10. As a success-minded person, you should always be looking to not only do your job but do it with excellence and go the extra mile.
John Patrick Hickey
#11. There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
Charles Caleb Colton
#12. 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
#13. What's hard is designing a service model that allows average employees - not just the exceptional ones - to produce service excellence as an everyday routine.
Frances Frei
#14. like the ancient Greek concept arete, I thought, virtue required moral, emotional, mental, and physical excellence. Neurosurgery seemed to present the most challenging and
Paul Kalanithi
#15. None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.
John C. Calhoun
#16. 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
#17. They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?
Murad S. Shah
#18. Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.
Michael N. Castle
#19. Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.
Nonie Darwish
#20. 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
#21. To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.
Charles Hodge
#22. Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.
Margaret Bourke-White
#23. Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
William Blake
#24. Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence ... the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.
Hannah Arendt
#25. The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
Euripides
#26. He liked I expect the idea of effortless excellence, and being unable to combine the two has settled for the one he could be sure of ...
Helen DeWitt
#27. My work is never perfect. It always can be better but I just believe that we need to achieve a really high level of excellence. I don't believe in the "Good Enough" principle as a Christian.
Brian Bird
#28. The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
Christopher Wren
#29. Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.
William Matthews
#30. 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
#31. The fact that the human act is self-directed or built up means in no sense that the actor necessarily exercises excellence in its construction. Indeed, he may do a very poor job in constructing his act.
Herbert Blumer
#32. The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
Edith Hamilton
#33. It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life. When we are in flow, we are not happy, because to experience happiness we must focus on our inner states, and that would take away attention from the task at hand.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#34. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential ... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
#35. The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.
Michael D. Higgins
#36. I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#37. Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
Brian Tracy
#38. Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.
Patch Adams
#39. 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
#40. The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
Alan Parsons
#41. Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.
Mike Krzyzewski
#42. In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.
Jo Walton
#43. You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.
James Daly
#44. Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.
Philip Selznick
#45. There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose ... There has been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.
Theodore Hesburgh
#46. As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both freedom and excellence.
Jerry Brown
#47. I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.
Al Gore
#48. 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
#49. Talent and success are cousins;
genius and excellence are twins.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#51. Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.
Price Pritchett
#52. 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
#53. Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.
Laozi
#54. The secret to a good life," he told me once, "is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.
Karen Joy Fowler
#55. Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
James Bryant Conant
#56. 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
#57. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
#58. Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.
Dorothea Dix
#59. How do you achieve excellence? ... Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
Tom Peters
#60. The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?
Gene Stallings
#61. It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.
Ethan Hawke
#62. 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
#63. Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.
Matthew Syed
#64. We all love to see excellence as a fan, and I am a fan now watching excellence in the Rangers net.
Mike Richter
#65. I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
Richard Price
#66. 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
#67. The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
Berenice Abbott
#68. And so I have remained, in relentless pursuit of truth and excellence, an unforgiving executioner of the bogus, an abomination to all but those few people who have overcome their aversion to truth in order to free whatever is good in them.
Louise Brooks
#69. 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
#70. In my experience, successful people shoot for the stars, put their hearts on the line in every battle, and ultimately discover that the lessons learned from the pursuit of excellence mean much more than the immediate trophies and glory.
Josh Waitzkin
#71. There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
#72. To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
Joseph Addison
#74. I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about ... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
Nina Simone
#75. Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.
Giulio Douhet
#76. Journey to Excellence involve identifying the right things, at the right time, and to act upon them with the right way to achieve desired measurable outcome.
Bharat Shah
#77. I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.
Lisa Bonet
#78. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
#79. Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.
Rory Vaden
#81. Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.
Tyler Cowen
#82. Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.
Noah Webster
#83. There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi
#84. Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.
Chris Gabrieli
#85. In order to succeed, one must have the patience to suffice a lifetime of hardships, desires, and excellence.
Isabel Aanya Leigh
#86. I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.
Charlie Trotter
#87. 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
#88. I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#89. 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
#90. You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.
Roger Ailes
#91. The marriage of Zeus and Hera can hardly be reframed into a "happy one" and yet Hera is the Goddess of marriage. Hera and Zeus could be described as quarrelsome predecessors of the Holy Family. For the Greeks they symbolized marriage par excellence.
Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig
#92. The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how crappy they feel.
Frederick Lenz
#93. Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.
George S. Patton
#95. The less fear a person has, the more happiness he has - unless, of course, it is that fear which is his happiness and excellence.
John Flavel
#96. But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
Lactantius
#97. Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book - the pleasure it bring us, something too many boil down to a dirty word: FUN.
Jim Trelease
#98. Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.
Pearl Zhu
#99. Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .
Dan Miller
#100. Always remember ... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless ...
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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