Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow. — Les Brown Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
“Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Success weakens and failure strengthens and together they remove imperfections to bring excellence in making life worthwhile. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.” — Sachin Kumar Puli Copy Share Image
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don't even… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If we want to identify the great success of American research universities, and that success goes far beyond Harvard, we have to… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The NCA should be the ultimate centre of excellence in the country. If a player from India, or some other country, has… — Anurag Thakur Copy Share Image
But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous,… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image