Excellence Quotes

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide.

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

We must die to become true human beings.

Do it, fix it, try it.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

I think that's the coolest thing about our fans, they not only respect, but they demand, excellence from our guys.

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

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

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.