Excellence Quotes · Page 95

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm a bit of a perfectionist and sometimes need someone to tell me to stop.

— Tom Walker

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

— Gerald May

Excellence in one area is the beginning of excellence in every area.

— Robin Sharma

“...but you have to remind yourself that perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.”

— Anne Lamott

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

— Barack Obama

“The wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if…

— Gary Hirshberg

“Achieving excellence is being passionate about what you're doing and working so hard that they have to hire two people to replace…

— Charlie Trotter

My strongest quality as an actor is taking direction. I will give my performance as a template and if the director gives…

— James Preston Rogers

“If you don’t want to abuse yourself, if you don’t want to abuse your life, the best thing to do is to…

— Sunday Adelaja

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our…

— Plato

We love football because the game of football is better than it has ever been, and is somehow managing to attain, at…

— Tom Junod

Don't wish for the best alone. Move toward it and grab the excellent, never give up on the first attempt. Life is…

— Kemmy Nola

I am the master of my fate and I am the captain of my boat. While ups and downs are a part…

— Jubin Nautiyal

Success weakens and failure strengthens and together they remove imperfections to bring excellence in making life worthwhile.

— Anuj Somany

“Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.”

— Victor Hugo

“There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.”

— Sachin Kumar Puli

the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.

— Henry Fielding

Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures.

— Henry Paulson

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

— Marva Collins

I realize that I am no longer able to adhere to the unwavering standard of excellence that professional football demands.

— Leighton Vander Esch

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

— Brian Tracy

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

— Mia Hamm

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.

— George Peppard

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

— Abner Leslie

It is all about quality of life and being proud of what I do. I need me to be me.

— Patrick Cox

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

— John Updike

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

— Tyra Banks

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

— Jane Austen

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

— Franz Grillparzer

One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.

— Oliver $

“Perfection lies in intensity, and what is most intense cannot be endured long.”

— Walter Kaufmann

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

— Philip James Bailey

A woman can see a woman so clearly - faluts, excellences, details - all are so clear to her.

— Richard Jefferies

Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.

— Sun Tzu

Excellence Matters. Excellent people. Excellent vision. Excellent marketing. Excellent strategies.

— Jeff Henderson

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

— Richard Bach