Excellence Quotes

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how crappy they feel.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

Excellence is never an accident.

It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.

Connfidence, excellence becomes a reality.

When u have this spirit of excellence, u do the right thing always :even if no one is watching you.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion?

To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

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.

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

Excellence is going the extra mile.

Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.

Excellence nourishes the soul.

Failure is the price of excellence.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.