Excellence Quotes - Page 12

One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man's reason can a movement succeed.

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Without doubt I praise the wild excellence.

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.

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

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

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.

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

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

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

Excellence requires us to prepare in advance.

I like cinematic art that doesn't have to include violence as the main meat of emotion. Now, excellence in cinema is based on murder, guns. Tarantino bores me. Even though he is very appealing and very facile about putting elements of pop culture into his work. But it kinds of dates it, right?

I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

The pursuit of excellence is a continuous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit.

A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.

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

Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

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

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.