Excellence Quotes - Page 17

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

'Live each day as if it is your last,' said Mahatma Gandhi. 'Learn as if you'll live forever.' This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this. It is this inextinguishable, undaunted appetite for learning and experience, no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric, no matter how seditious it might seem.

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

I think that's the coolest thing about our fans, they not only respect, but they demand, excellence from our guys.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and accurate instruments, but they apply these to very inferior materials. The physical chemists combine both these characteristics in that they apply imprecise methods to impure materials.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

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

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.

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.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.