Excellence Quotes

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

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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

For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

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

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

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

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.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

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

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

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

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

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.