Excellence Quotes - Page 3

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.

It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.

Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

Perfection is not a destination; it's a never-ending process...Enjoy!

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.