Excellence Quotes · Page 96

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'm always picking at what's wrong and trying to correct it so that my game will…

— Chipper Jones

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to…

— Pearl S. Buck

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

— Wilferd Peterson

Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.

— Lawrence M. Miller

I'm a perfectionist - but as someone once said, 'What else is there to be?'

— June Brown

Don't put your chapter down, elevate them and motivate them to strive for excellence.

— Anonymous

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

— Orrin Woodward

You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection.

— Wayne Dyer

Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm…

— Eknath Easwaran

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies…

— Sun Tzu

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence…

— Anthony Trollope

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in…

— Quintilian

There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls:…

— Elizabeth McCracken

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to…

— Kenny Marchant

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Michael Ballack

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

— Onew

“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

“To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

— Sophocles

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

— Barney Kessel

If you want to soar high in life, you have to give up the things and people that weigh you down.

— Rashida Rowe

I'm a perfectionist. I want everything done right. When it's not done right, I'm not happy.

— Kyle Walker

“Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.”

— Donna Goddard

“We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.”

— Tim Fargo

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

— Vince Lombardi

To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty

— K. Anders Ericsson

There is no real excellence in all this word which can be separated from right living.

— David Starr Jordan

Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?

— Cassandra Clare

There is no control and perfection is arrogant. Practice messiness, letting go, and doing things badly.

— Sark

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

— Peter Drucker

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of…

— Bram Stoker

“People who personify excellence are people who invoke the same in others.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.

— Ricky Skaggs

Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.

— Azim Premji