Excellence Quotes - Page 13

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty. [Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.]

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

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

The Age of Aquarius is the age of excellence in which personal purity shall absolutely matter.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.