Excellence Quotes · Page 87

“The present and the future belong to believers and practitioners of excellence; not the "dinosaurs.”

— Rex Resurreccion

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

— Natalie Portman

Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.

— Napoleon Hill

I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.

— Jay-Z

I always want people to realise that whatever I do is a quality product. And that's what's really important to me.

— Jay Sean

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Do not surrender to any master; that would be slavery. Surrender to yourself, for that would be victory.”

— Gian Kumar

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

— John Dewey

“To ensure quality, then, excellence must be an earned word, attributed by others to us, not proclaimed by us about ourselves. It…

— Ed Catmull

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature…

— John Ruskin

The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit hat absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or…

— Terry Orlick

“When you feel that others are lacking and failing … first assess the skill, style, quality, results, mindset, support, professionalism and spirit…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen,…

— Plato

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the…

— Chris Evert

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do…

— Bill Cosby

If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

— Philip Selznick

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from - if you put quality work out there, it will be…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

— P. G. Wodehouse

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

— Eric Hoffer

“Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.”

— Adam Smith

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

— Abraham Lincoln

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

— Wade Davis

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

— Herb Kohl

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

— Malcolm Forbes

It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering.

— Gautama Buddha

“Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.”

— Elizabeth Isaacs

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

— Gene Stallings

The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.

— William F. Nolan

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

— Martin Buber

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

— Anonymous

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

— Berenice Abbott

“Conversion of time creates disparities between developed and underdeveloped countries in the world”

— Sunday Adelaja

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

— Mark McCormack

“It's better to do something with quality, no matter how long it takes you rather than do something mediocre, with constant quantity.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

Dear future husband, sorry for not being perfect I hope you can see through my imperfections or love me anyways

— Anonymous

Perfection resides near to the correction, ahead of the resurrection of the success, but beside the house of the excellence only.

— Anuj Somany

I know I'm not perfect. But I'm proud of my imperfections. They make me who I am.

— Andrew James

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

— Elie Wiesel

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

— Joe Paterno