Excellence Quotes · Page 89

Well, if you're talking about perfection, I'll show you the image of my backside.

— Onew

A team can have quality but it's also about personality and how they can grow.

— Michael Ballack

“Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

— Ted Malloch

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

— Edward Hopper

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

— Charlie Trotter

“You have your very own recipe for success in life, based on a unique mix of ingredients. Those ingredients are you —the…

— Lizzie Velásquez

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

You think of luxury when you think of Calvin Klein. He created this lifestyle that's really desirable, so our whole project has…

— Francisco Costa

“The question is not "can you wear your father's shoes?". The question is "can you walk in your father's shoes?". It is…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've…

— Twyla Tharp

We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have…

— Benjamin Disraeli

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

— John Ruskin

“Never look for perfection, You will Never get it, but consistent trying will always bring you closer.”

— Nitish Sharma

“Don’t let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.”

— Marilu Henner

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

— Mike Krzyzewski

Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.

— Marco Zanini

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these are the things that count in life.

— Scott O'Grady

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

— Oscar Wilde

The truth is I don't believe in perfection in this world, because no one has not reached it.

— Sarahi Gonzalez

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of…

— Andrew Carnegie

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

— Tibor Fischer

Beauty is not perfection; life is not without suffering; and a piece of writing can never be flawless.

— Melchor Lim

Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'

— Sarah Lewis

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to give 100 percent to everything.

— Sarah McLachlan

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

— Les Brown

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

— Alber Elbaz

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

— Anonymous

“Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.”

— Wayde Goodall

The struggle towards perfection is one of the most important components of what we call life.

— Senora Roy

The plasters getting harder and my love is perfection, a token of my love for her collection.

— KISS

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

— John Wooden

Excellence is not perfection but essentially a desire to be strong in the Lord and for the Lord.

— Anonymous

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.

— John Dryden