Excellence Quotes

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Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek… — Carl Jung
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of… — George Ellwanger
Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love. — Robert Grudin
The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own… — Guy Finley
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has… — Ambrose Bierce
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of… — Saint Francis de Sales
There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my business should prosper,… — Charles W. Nibley
It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral… — Andrew Harvey
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is… — Oprah Winfrey
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. — Confucius
You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the… — Unknown Author
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest… — Edward Tufte
The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams. — Henry David Thoreau
Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty — K. Anders Ericsson
I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence.… — Rita Coolidge
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. — Irving Babbitt
The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start… — Price Pritchett
Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular… — C.S. Lewis
Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence. — Vince Lombardi
Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry… — Joshua Reynolds

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