Excellence Quotes

Demand excellence.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

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

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.

Excellence always sells.

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

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.

Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.

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.

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

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

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.