Excellence Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for 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.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

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

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.

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

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.