Excellence Quotes

Excellent things are rare.

Plato

If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell or can make better chairs or knives crucibles or church organs than anybody else you will find a broad hardbeaten road to his house though it be in the woods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

. . to be exceptional in martial arts, you must possess the "4 C's" : Consistency, Commitment, Creativity and Competence

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

Israelmore Ayivor

Those who distinguish themselves in what they do and become disinct always score distinction. Don't follow the crowd. Distinguish yourself with a special commitment and you will excel.

Israelmore Ayivor

The truth is the very definition of excellence.

Loron-Jon Stokes

Either find a way, or make one....You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

As I tell my children, 'If you are going to do something, do your best while you're doing it.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Be driven with purpose. Be relentless in your alignment with excellence. Pay no mind to the disimpassioned impotent haters.

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

Orison Swett Marden

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

George Washington Carver

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous

Rex Stout

True sportsmanship is excellence in motion!

The excellent person manages himself. He will not allow the environment to manage him.

Rex Resurreccion

Most of us are continually engaged in some form of pursuit. We are seeking excellence within one or more areas in our lives, and that is the basis of our motivation. It is human nature to have a need to get ahead, need a little something more—it’s in our DNA. Although we may not be certain of what we need at any given moment, we know there’s something. It’s a competitive itch and desire to improve that never goes away.

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

Excellence prospers in the absence of excuses.

When I think of excellence in motion, I think of the big picture. Because of the magnitude of this concept, I look at it from an aerial perspective. It is a mindset that challenges the boundaries of self-induced limits—that point where you aspire to exceed your expectations, where the mind-body-achievement connection resides and wins time and time again.

As sure as shadow follows substance and the sun rises on the east and sets on the west, a person who exercises professional excellence will be followed by success.

Rex Resurreccion

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

Autograph your life with a signature of excellence.

Stamp your performance with excellence.

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.

Aristotle

There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.

People can easily forget how fast you did your work, but can hardly forget how well you did it.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.

Vincent Lombardi

Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life's tapestry.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.- Aristotle

Marco G. Casteleijn

Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details in everything you do and excellence will come.

In any profession, you will be respected if you are good at your job – not because you are good at talking about your beliefs. It may be quite irrational, but the fact is that, if you are recognized as being outstanding on one thing, you will be listened to on all sorts of subjects in no way related to it... and so, if you are going to be really effective [for your cause] in your place of work, you must set out to be the best man at your job.

Douglas Arnold Hyde

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

Be a reflection of excellence.

Ordinary is an insult to excellence.

Jury Nel

Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don’t call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of Excellence? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of Excellence?

Otis Webb Brawley

Moderation leads to Mediocrity, Intensity leads to Excellence.

Suleman Abdullah

I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.

A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak through a prolong period of flood. We must work our talents out and work them out skillfully and then our rainbow of excellence will show.

Israelmore Ayivor

We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence

Wisdom clears the mind of delusions thus making it more focused to achieve excellence.

Journey to Excellence involve identifying the right things, at the right time, and to act upon them with the right way to achieve desired measurable outcome.

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

A world in which deliberate practice is a normal part of life would be one in which people had more volition and satisfaction.

Anders Ericsson

There is one art, no more, no less, to do all things with artlessness.

Anonymous

To live a life of excellence, you will have to take risks. You will have to step into new territory and climb new mountains. If you’re up to something that’s as big as you are, it’s going to be scary. If it feels perfectly safe, you are probably underachieving. To leave your mark in the world, you will have to stand someplace you’ve never been willing to stand before. And you will have to have the courage to aspire to excellence. To create an extraordinary life you will have to be present in each moment and give 100 percent of yourself. You will have to commit each day to being the best you can be, and aspire to perform your daily tasks in the most conscious way possible. Living your best year requires you to take a moment each time you’re about to make a move—whether you are about to deliver a communication, make a decision, or put something into your body—and make sure that move reflects the very highest choice you could make.

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.

Plato

Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100% better in any one thing: it means we strive to be 1% better in 100 things.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Imagine yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself with dedication to excellence, from daily self-improvement and practice. Enjoy the process.

Mark F. LaMoure

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.

Jo Walton

Blossoming out through one's comfort zone should be well meaning so as to achieve newer levels of excellence

Priyavrat Thareja

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

Think of your day as a blank canvas, and everything you say, your art upon it. Then join your loved ones and friends, and create lasting beauty together, worthy of your inner Rembrandt.

If the 'Journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step' - that is prescribed to - ALIGN

Priyavrat Thareja

The race for excellence has no finish line.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

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