Excellence Quotes

Whatever you are, be a good one

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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

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

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

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.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

Excellence does not require perfection.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

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

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Patience is also a form of action.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

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

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

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

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

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.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World...

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

The race for excellence has no finish line.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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

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

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

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

We usually get what we anticipate.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.

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.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Having your goal to focus on is key, but don't let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

I can do small things in a great way.

As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs of our citizens, so I don't want to mess with a system that is working well for us.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

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

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

Excellence always sells.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Excellent things are rare.

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

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

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

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

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.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

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

If 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, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.