Excellence Quotes

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Excellence does not require perfection.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

Do your best at every job. Don't sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.

The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.