Excellence Quotes - Page 9

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms, but standing inexplicable and irrational, is hardly a justifiable position. Uniformities are precisely the sort of facts that need to be accounted for. Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

I don't want to cower at somebody's interpretation of what I'm about. I'm supposed to be doing it and I'm going to throw this word out there-with excellence. There's no reason for me to give anything less that all I've got in everything I do. That's scriptural. For me, that's the foundation of who I am.

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

You should aspire to a level of personal excellence - to be the best you can be. You should aspire to have the richest life you can get in terms of fulfillment, happiness and peace.

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.