Excellence Quotes

990 quotes by 615 authors

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness… — Josiah Wedgwood
Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what… — Helen Keller
When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best. — W. Edwards Deming
Passion for a goal doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you can't even begin. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value — Charles Dudley Warner
The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire… — James C. Collins
Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves. — Nelly Mazloum
All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and… — Denis Waitley
The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work. — Brian Tracy
The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world-not just growth or money but their… — Charles Handy
I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both… — Jerry Brown
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. — George Will
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. — Aristotle
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by… — William Hazlitt
I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with… — John H. Johnson
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation,… — Eric Hoffer
Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables… — Douglas Conant
If the only people we seek to impress are within our own ivory towers of artistic excellence or our hallowed institutions, we will find the… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

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