Top 82 What Is Excellence Quotes
#1. Strictly excel in what is excellence with grace
GZA
#2. Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.
Paul Russo
#3. 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
#4. Something good is a frontier; something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. 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
#6. That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#7. No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams
#8. The results you are churning out are a direct or indirect reflection of what you allowed into your life. Unlearning what you already know and practice is no easy task, but sometimes it's necessary for the programming or re-programming that must take place for success to be made deliberate.
Archibald Marwizi
#9. 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
#10. Once you understand what excellence is all about ... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline.
Joe Rogan
#11. Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.
Andreas Feininger
#12. Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part.
Shawn Achor
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?
Gene Stallings
#17. Find what you're good at. whatever it is, and become excellent at it. Excellence isn't magic - it's habit, the by product of doing something over and over and striving to be the best at it. Simply figure out what your passion is, and resolve to make excellence your habit.
Lauren Rowe
#18. Hence while in respect of its substance and the definition that states what it really is in essence virtue is the observance of the mean, in point of excellence and rightness it is an extreme.
Aristotle.
#19. What I've learned at close quarters is that excellence, year after year, is exhausting.
Hank Haney
#20. Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
#21. The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.
Price Pritchett
#22. If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.
William Pollard
#23. 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
#24. It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.
Israelmore Ayivor
#25. Aristotle said 'we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.'" He
Toni Aleo
#26. Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
Tom Peters
#27. What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success.
Archibald Marwizi
#28. To achieve excellence, we must also consider and work with what is not apparent, with what cannot be seen. We must journey into the complex world of subtle energies.
Cyndi Dale
#29. Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.
Brian Tracy
#30. 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
#31. Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.
Adam Smith
#32. Positive psychology is the study of what constitutes excellence in individuals, communities, and workplaces. It incorporates the study of productivity, resilience, motivation, emotions, strengths, team dynamics, and more.
Margaret Greenberg
#33. I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
Vince Lombardi
#34. 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.
#35. And the next time I did school stuff in the middle of the night, I just did it in my closet with the door locked. Honestly, what is wrong with this country when striving for excellence means you need antidepressants?
Rachel Hawkins
#36. What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
Jane Alexander
#37. Doing what others have done is skill.
Dong what few have done is talent.
Doing what none have done is genius.
Going where others have gone is competence.
Going where few have gone is excellence.
Going where none have gone is transcendence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. 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
#39. The truth is that we all have what it takes to succeed and the fact is that not everyone will attain what they define success to be.
Archibald Marwizi
#40. What is excellent,
As God lives, is permanent;
Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain,
Heart's love will meet thee again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.
Helen Keller
#42. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Will Durant
#43. 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
#44. I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
Claire Bloom
#45. I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, "What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence."
Jake Gyllenhaal
#46. Leveraging your personal strengths means you will also need to become clearer about those strengths. It is easier to build on what you are already good at than start from your weaker areas. Take time to list down your strengths and reflect on them.
Archibald Marwizi
#47. One lesson learned is you've got to finish the scenario with excellence. You just cannot stop. You have to complete this, and I think that's where Apple has taught us all what experience excellence means in the creation of categories.
Satya Nadella
#48. 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
#49. On second thought, it's unlikely that anybody can teach another to excel in bed. Rather, what they might do is awaken in the other her or his predisposition for copulative excellence.
Tom Robbins
#50. A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.
Onyi Anyado
#51. I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.
Vince Lombardi
#52. Be in love with what you do. Love wisdom. Love life. Love people. God is love.
Archibald Marwizi
#53. At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?
Jeff Henderson
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Richard M. Nixon
#64. There must be a season for everything that measures what success means to you, there must be a deliberately scheduled time slot for the things that are important to you. Wishing is not enough, deliberate plans followed by deliberate actions make it possible.
Archibald Marwizi
#65. What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.
Cameron C. Taylor
#66. 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
#67. what makes a professional is not merely an academic excellence; it is in the possession of the relevant virtues related to the professional's area of expertise.
Michael Quansah
#68. Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do
Shaquille O'Neal
#70. Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
Sophocles
#71. Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease.
Israelmore Ayivor
#72. Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.
Jason Calacanis
#73. Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Rick Pitino
#74. Who are you' is a question of both substance and position. In other words, what is the authority of your voice, service, product or performance in relation to the needs of those you intend to serve? Secondly, have you defined and demystified yourself enough to be accepted as the solution of choice?
Archibald Marwizi
#75. What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
Confucius
#76. Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
Seth Godin
#77. Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak through a prolong period of flood. We must work our talents out and work them out skillfully and then our rainbow of excellence will show.
Israelmore Ayivor
#78. What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.
Frederick William Robertson
#79. Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don't have a standard for yourself, you have no records to beat; and if you don't have any record to beat, you can't excel. What is your current standard?
Israelmore Ayivor
#80. Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#81. Work, and not wishing, is what brings motion and results from your vision. Don't be lazy. Try and try again, learn and practice, review and refine, then go back to implement again.
Archibald Marwizi
#82. You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go.
Hans Berliner
