Excellence Quotes · Page 84

“Dream big and dare to make it happen. You have a heavy power; don’t misuse it carrying a paperweight load. Make it…

— Israelmore Ayivor

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what…

— Bruce Lee

You know what I think my best quality is? I think I'm nice to have around. I'd hate it if I weren't…

— Charles M. Schulz

Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a…

— Denis Waitley

“Maybe, just maybe, the perfection of the world was found in the imperfection.”

— Peter Monn

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

— Anonymous

The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and…

— Frances Hesselbein

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

— Melody Beattie

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in…

— Aristotle

“Grow your talents and skills through a consistent practice and progressive learning. Learn to relearn and unlearn. Raise the bar for yourself…

— Israelmore Ayivor

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so…

— Howard Mumford Jones

I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning…

— Sandra Faber

The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is…

— J. R. D. Tata

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of…

— Samuel Johnson

I think as a player, I definitely yearn for the sustainability and the consistency there... As a quarterback, I yearn for those…

— Jalen Hurts

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.”

— Steve Jobs

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

— Horace Bushnell

If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.

— Robert Forster

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read…

— Mark Twain

Whatever you need to increase the quality of your sleep is really, really important.

— Harley Pasternak

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

— Brian Tracy

I believe my main quality is my speed, and that can help to open games up.

— Jesus Navas

When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.

— Eckhart Tolle

I like simple, I like quality, and I like less. Do I like a certain aesthetic? Yeah.

— Tomas Maier

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

— Cheng Man-ch'ing

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

— Thomas A. Edison

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.

— William J. Clinton

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

— Anonymous

No one is perfect but those who know how to use properly their imperfections.

— Senoraroy

“Nothing can be more perfect in my world than the imperfection it must match.”

— Leot Felton

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

— Anthony Bourdain

“Athletic and artistic excellence lies in feeling light. Stretch your reality not just your body.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

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

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“This is perfection. This is completion. This is what I was born for”

— D.S. Wrights

Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.

— Baltasar Gracian

“Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless...”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld