Excellence Quotes

Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.

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.

Hey, size works against excellence.

Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and when I moved to Wyomissing, I didn't know anybody.

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

The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.

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.

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

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.

Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

You're only as good as your last story.

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

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

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

Excellence is the name of the game.

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.

For excellence, the presence of others is always required.

Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.