Excellence Quotes
990 quotes by 638 authors
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Excellence costs a great deal.
— May Sarton
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The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
— Vince Lombardi
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Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact,…
— Jean Aitchison
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If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you…
— Hope Solo
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Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Excellence is the new forever.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Excellence demands that you be better than yourself.
— Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
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Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100…
— Jan Carlzon
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Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.
— Stephen Covey
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It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
— J. Willard Marriott
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Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.
— Samuel Mockbee
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Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
— Tom Peters
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No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
— Horace
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Refuse to be average.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you…
— Michael Ray
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In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on…
— Kenny Marchant
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Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.
— Don Shula
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him,…
— Khalil Gibran
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Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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