Excellence Quotes - Page 5

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.

Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Excellence always sells.

Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.