Excellence Quotes

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

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.

Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

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.

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

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.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

Go where no one's gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.

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.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.

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.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education.

If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!

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

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can...

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.

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.

The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.