Excellence Quotes
Set out to do three or four things this year with gusto and excellence, rather than doing a dozen things just sufficiently. Trust me on this.
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.
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.
Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.
Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.
In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.
Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.
Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.
In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.
I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.
Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.
And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.
Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.
It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.
You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.
That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever
You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.
Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.
The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.
Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.
Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.
In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.
Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.
He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.
Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.
It seems that more people today have a greater desire to live long than they do to live well.
An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.
You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.
Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.
When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
