Excellence Quotations

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

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

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

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

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

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

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

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.

Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.

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

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.

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

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

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

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

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

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.

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

If the only people we seek to impress are within our own ivory towers of artistic excellence or our hallowed institutions, we will find the audience is gone in 20 to 30 years. I find as I keep a broader audience in mind, I choose to sing and say more things I actually want to share and fewer things just for the sake of impressing others.

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

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

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 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.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

My father taught us that to thrive, excellence in technology, quality, and customer service along with cost competitiveness is a prerequisite. His contribution to business, the economy, and society at large can never be underscored enough.

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 can do small things in a great way.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

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

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

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.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

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.

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

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.

CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

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 only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

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.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

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.'

All you owe the public is a good performance.

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.

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

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.

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.

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

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

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 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.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

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

I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.

I demand excellence from the people I work with.

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.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

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

My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.

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 spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author's public persona with the work itself. A good 'performer' can make a mediocre book sound strong, and a shy author can leave listeners missing the excellence of his or her writing.

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

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

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

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

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

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.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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