Excellence Quotes - Page 10

We usually get what we anticipate.

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

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.

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Excellent things are rare.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

Once you understand what excellence is all about... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.