Excellence Quotes · Page 91

Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.

— Alex Ferguson

Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be…

— Jane Fonda

“While the words are yet unspoken, you are master of them; when once they are spoken, they are master of you.”

— Brad Thor

It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.

— Frederick Lenz

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

— Mike Tyson

“The difference between mediocrity and excellence is often a matter of effort.”

— Diana Waring

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.

— John Naisbitt

I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you…

— Frank O'Hara

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;…

— Joseph Joubert

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple…

— Paulo Coelho

I am a very instinctive Conservative. I have created a welfare system where it pays to work. I have created independent schools…

— David Cameron

“Perfection is the lowest standard out there because it is unattainable. Be the best you can but don’t try to be someone…

— Mensah Oteh

What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is…

— Azim Premji

“the track of Quality preselects what data we’re going to be conscious of, and it makes this selection in such a way…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'perfection' by 'totality.' Don't think in terms that you have to be perfect, think…

— Anonymous

While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Imperfection keeps me trying, and I won't stop even if I do achieve it.”

— Nabil N. Jamal

Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?

— Robert Owen

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

— Brian Tracy

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

— Paulo Coelho

“Be driven with purpose. Be relentless in your alignment with excellence. Pay no mind to the disimpassioned impotent haters.”

— Steve Maraboli

Quality and a great product matters, in startups, and in accelerators.

— David Cohen

When it comes to some things you have to look at the quality, and not the quantity.

— Rehn Williams

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the…

— Woody Allen

There will always be imperfections in me. Its up to you to look past all that, to see the best in me.

— Jenna Bognar

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

— Richard Steele

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

— Charles Richet

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

— John W. Gardner

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

— Sun Tzu

Sometimes something has a value, it has an instant quality to it, and that's all it needs to be.

— Erol Alkan

“But no matter what gifts we're given, we can never apply them to perfection because we're human, after all, and given to…

— Dean Koontz

The best qualities we have are the ones we never see. And the worst qualities we have are the ones we always…

— Anonymous

Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.

— Marvin J. Ashton

“Even if you have achieved everything, there is Perfection, still left to be achieved.”

— Amit Kalantri

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

— Azim Premji

“Perfection is only achieved when there is nothing more that can be taken away rather then when there are things that can…

— Antoine De Saint Exupery

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

— Tom Landry

“Self-doubt is when you think you are not good enough.” Self-confidence is when you are crazy enough to believe that you are…

— Michael Bassey Johnson