Excellence Quotes

Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

My path was simple: Follow your passion. Pour in your heart and soul. Settle for nothing less than excellence. And with enough hard work and faith in yourself, you can realize your dream.

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

Excellence always sells.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.

I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

The race for excellence has no finish line.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

You serve your people by leading them to excellence. That's leadership.

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.

If you strive for excellence, success will follow

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

Excellence has become a habit.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do.

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.