Excellence Quotes - Page 20

Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes.

I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs of our citizens, so I don't want to mess with a system that is working well for us.

It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.