Excellence Quotes

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

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.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with 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.

It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.