In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
~By Aristotle ~
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
~By Tom Peters ~
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
~By David Starr Jordan ~
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.
~By Colin Powell ~
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
~By Pat Riley ~
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
~By Victoria Principal ~
The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.
~By Dawn Fraser ~
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
~By Edmund C. Stedman ~
I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
~By Claire Bloom ~
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
~By Voltaire ~
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.
~By Chris Evert ~
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
~By George Eliot ~
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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.
~By Octavio Paz ~
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
~By Denis Diderot ~
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
~By Herman Melville ~
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.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
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.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
~By Confucius ~
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.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
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.
~By Hesiod ~
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
~By Nina Simone ~
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
~By Max Lerner ~
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
~By John W. Gardner ~
You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.
~By James Daly ~
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
~By Joe Paterno ~
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.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
~By Thomas J. Watson ~
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
~By Sun Tzu ~
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.
~By Mike Curb ~
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.
~By John W. Gardner ~
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.
~By Mario Andretti ~
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
~By Ralph Marston ~
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.
~By David Halberstam ~
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
~By Charles Handy ~
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.
~By Greg LeMond ~
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.
~By John Strachan ~
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
~By Howard Mumford Jones ~
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.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
~By David Ogilvy ~
The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.
~By John Hutton ~
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
~By Steve Jobs ~
What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
~By Jane Alexander ~
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
~By Alan Parsons ~
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
~By Lactantius ~
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.
~By Aristotle ~
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
~By John W. Gardner ~
Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained.
~By James Loeb ~
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
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.
~By Protagoras ~
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
~By Sun Tzu ~
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
~By Aeschylus ~
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.
~By Charles Kendall Adams ~
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
~By J. G. Stedman ~
My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.
~By John Kluge ~
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.
~By Dave Heineman ~
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
~By Joe Paterno ~
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
~By Sun Tzu ~
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
~By Barack Obama ~
It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.
~By Edward Bok ~
America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
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.
~By Aristotle ~
Excellence always sells.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
~By Ted W. Engstrom ~
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
~By Lactantius ~
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
~By John Metcalf ~
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
~By Aristotle ~
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
~By Shana Alexander ~
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
~By Alex Campbell ~
In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
~By Jerry Moran ~
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
~By Richard Price ~
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