Excellence Quotes

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Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity… — Allen West
I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on. — Serena Williams
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. — Oprah Winfrey
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. — Oprah Winfrey
As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist. — Tiger Woods
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. — Virginia Woolf
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident. — Abdul Kalam
[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a… — Confucius
It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation;… — Thomas Mann
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world. — Dolly Parton
Do your best, and be a little better than you are. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we… — Vince Lombardi
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way… — Aristotle
He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness… — William Shakespeare
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give… — Randy Pausch
I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up — Frank O'Hara
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down.… — Elizabeth Gilbert

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