Excellence Quotes - Page 8

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: "Elitism!" And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down. "Standing out" is undemocratic.

To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.

Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Because God is not only infinitely greater and more excellent than all other being, but he is the head of the universal system of existence; the foundation and fountain of all being and all beauty; from whom all is perfectly derived, and on whom all is most absolutely and perfectly dependent; of whom, and through whom, and to whom is all being and all perfection; and whose being and beauty are, as it were, the sum and comprehension of all existence and excellence: much more than the sun is the fountain and summary comprehension of all the light and brightness of the day.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.

Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.