Excellence Quotes - Page 16

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Gandhi said 'One cannot do right in one area of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in another; Life is one indivisible whole.' This point of wisdom is profound. A commitment to excellence is not just reserved for a few select areas of your life - it must be reflected in everything you do. Your diet must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your physique must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your personal habits must reflect your commitment to excellence and your thoughts must reflect a commitment to excellence.

Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

... the major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters mediocrity. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

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

Everything you say; every thought you entertain; and everything you do has a direction, which serves as an advance or a retreat in respect to your pursuit of excellence. Everything, regardless of size or intent, has bottom-line consequences; therefore, everything counts - this is the golden rule of excellence.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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.