Excellence Quotes

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.

Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

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

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

Have an attitude of positive expectation.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.