Excellence Quotes

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.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

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

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

Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Excellence is the result of habitual integrity.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

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.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.

Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.