Excellence Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

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.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

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.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

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

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

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

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

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.