Excellence Quotes

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.

People who achieve marvelously in critical challenges are commended than people who achieve same things on the silver platter.

People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.

It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence

for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

Learn to master your thoughts and watch closely what you deposit into your spirit. Speak over your life. Living in peace has transformative power.

Visualize yourself at your best. Be determined to earn the proud badge of excellence. By working hard and practicing, one day you will earn its golden title.

Average is common. Excellence is rare.

Don't stop believing, Don't be afraid of change, Don't underestimate yourself, Don't make excuses, Don't cheat yourself, Don't ever ever STOP!

Be excellent in your own terms.

Do not be obsessed with expensive things.Instead, be obsessed with excellence.Things don't make you excellent.However, excellence will make you expensive.

Excellence doesn’t come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress.

Don't apologize for expressing passion.Don't back down when it comes to your integrity.Don't let anyone undermine your standards for the sake of ease.Be a character of excellence, NOT excuses.

Pursuit of excellence is the desire for divine fulfilment.

You don't obtain excellence by doing the bare minimum.

Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.

What the average call excellent, the excellent call average.

Your comfort zone is not that comfortable.

Entrepreneur, your either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive.

Autograph your life with a signature of excellence.

Leadership is bringing people into new realms of excellence and challenging them to become distinguished in their chosen field.

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.