Excellence Quotes · Page 76

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

— Aeschylus

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

— George Leonard

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

— Isaac D'Israeli

“Excellence is a custom at the land of greatness, it drives our culture.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Always check your time and ask if you are moving closer or away from your greatness”

— Sunday Adelaja

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

— William C. Menninger

Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect -…

— Price Pritchett

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality,…

— Anton Chekhov

“a passionate commitment to a single mission and an unswerving dedication to achieve that mission. She decided she needed to name this…

— Paul Tough

As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs…

— Bill Smith

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or…

— Swami Vivekananda

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings…

— Socrates

Perfection is an excellence achieved with the multiple corrections in anything or everything that was earlier rated, respected and reckoned as enviable…

— Anuj Somany

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and…

— Brené Brown

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.

— Robin Sharma

“How many things by season season'd are, To their right praise and true perfection!”

— William Shakespeare

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and…

— Faye Wattleton

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

— Anonymous

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

— Peter Senge

“Achieving perfection will never happen, setting and achieving goals will, once we stop reaching for perfection.”

— Joe Mehl

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

— Anonymous

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

— Douglas Merrill

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

— Jane Austen

“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.”

— Pat Conroy

Your children are the most precious gift, prime example of perfection, and clearly an accurate definition of pure; unconditional love.

— Joseph Mercado

Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.

— Edward Hallowell

The master who loved most of all, endured the most and proved his love by his endurance.

— Hugh B. Brown

Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

— Steve Jobs

From a development standpoint, at Blizzard Entertainment one of our values of course is commitment to quality.

— Michael Morhaime

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

— Samuel Richardson

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

— Roy Barnes

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

— Anton Chekhov

“Perfection is an illusion we create to convince the soul to trust.”

— Corinne Michaels

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

— Robert Breault

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

— Patti Smith

I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.

— Robert Genn

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

— Eric Thomas