Excellence Quotes - Page 18

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can...

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.

Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Go where no one's gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.

I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.

Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid, but rather as a complement to them without which they cannot be fully consummated.

There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe we're not pawns, we're not victims on this planet, that knows we have the power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!

Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers.

What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education.

Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!

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