Excellence Quotes - Page 2

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

Thornton Wilder

To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader. If it doesn't, it risks becoming yet another mediocre corporation.

Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your life...

James A. Murphy

when i run i run fastwhen i read time whirls pastwhatever you do todaydo it in the best possible way

Cassondra

To have a man whose name is on the label showing such interest, commitment, and determination for the best is a wonderful thing. This is someone who will throw money at quality, who believes in being the best. Never knock it. Would you prefer to have a bean counter in corporate headquarters, someone who never comes near the brewery, making decisions solely on the basis of the bottom line and profit margins?

Charles W. Bamforth

I tried to bunked classes, I skipped lectures, I cheated in exams, I lied to my teachers and some stuff were taken for granted when I was a student before. I am not proud about it. Of course, I learned from that experience. I learned that everyone has a chance to change. It doesn't mean that if I am dumbass before and you call me the same thing now. Because now, I work hard, play the game well and strive for excellence. This is me now, a guy with a strong grit in my heart.

Nathaniel E. Quimada

People who personify excellence are people who invoke the same in others.

Sravani Saha Nakhro

The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Doing and acting build a culture of excellence

Kathryn A. LeRoy

My greatest joy is in helping others be their best.

Life is like a road, It has highways and detours

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

We downplay our excellence when we only depend on miracles.

The gospel of the kingdom talks about excellence.

One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Gravity keeps your body down from flying high. On the other hand, nothing can keep you down from outperforming yourself and from continually growing to become excellent.

Assegid Habtewold

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attidute.

There can be no excellence without insight.

If performance of duty is part of excellence, then it should give satisfaction and happiness.

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

Gordon B. Hinckley

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

Charles Dickens

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

Hunter S. Thompson

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.

Sebastyne Young

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Abraham Lincoln

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

Voltaire

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Aristotle

There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.

I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best

Winston S. Churchill

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence

Vince Lombardi Jr.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

Adriana Trigiani

If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.

Lindsay Buckingham

You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.

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.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.

Success depends on our choice of deployment (in terms of both quantity and/ or Quality) of the 86400 spells (Hindi- Pal) available each day for reflection, correction, and improvement,towards the journey for perfection.

Priyavrat Thareja

Development of states, urbanization, mechanization and industrialisation have all brought phenomenal strides to growth and prosperity of economies and their populace. They have also brought with them the insatiable need for energy resources with the related offspring of instability, conflict, war and corruption.

Archibald Marwizi

The spirit of excellence exorcises the demon of mediocrity.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The best posture you can adopt when pursuing your goals is neither to stand nor sit. The best position is to STANDOUT! Everyone may be sitting; but don't sit! Many people may be standing; but don't just stand. When you stand, be outstanding!

Israelmore Ayivor

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless...

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Vince Lombardi Jr.

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Entrepreneur, your either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive.

Do you know invisible determination and effort will always accomplish visible distinction and excellence?

Excellence is not a success but a persistent pursuit of perfection.

Debasish Mridha

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

Robert Farrar Capon

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

William H. Gass

Christ manifests his divine leadership in your sincere followership. Christ's followers become true leaders because Christ is the model of true leadership.

Israelmore Ayivor

A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people’s love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Excellence results from the accumulation of proper choices compounded over time.

Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level.

John Stahl-Wert

Everything that we enjoy is a result of someone's hard work. Some work is visible and other work goes unseen, but both are equally important. Some people stop working as soon as they find a job. Regardless of the unemployment statistics, it is hard to find good people to work. Many people don't understand the difference between idle time and leisure time. Idle time amounts to wasting or stealing time; leisure time is earned. Procrastinating amounts to not working. Excellence is not luck; it is the result of a lot of hard work and practice. Hard work and practice make a person better at whatever he is doing.

A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.

Your comfort zone is not that comfortable.

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