Excellence Quotes

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of ...

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of...

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, ...

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest...

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I ...

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is...

One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far mor...

Excellent things are rare.

for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, b...

If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell or can make better chairs or knives cr...

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the so...

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because the...

...as we proceed to higher and higher levels of expertise, and as the stakes get higher and higher, ...

You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe ...

You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your famil...

I’m speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion t...

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting ch...

Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, re...

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men...

You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this...

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a hel...

He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to ta...

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking arti...

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [he...

A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve e...

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless...

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in par...

[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as m...

Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in i...

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly...

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar...

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being dete...

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue o...

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish we...

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the sou...

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does...

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be exce...

I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven time...

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston...

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give y...

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do...

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excel...

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys ...

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and...

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can...

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim a...

I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation w...

I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana T...

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor an...

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness m...

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from t...

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence...

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to wor...

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.

And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the creature...

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in phi...

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

But I'm not dead," Blue pointed out."BUT YOU ARE PRETTY SHORT.