Excellence Quotes

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Excellence costs a great deal. — May Sarton
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. — Thomas Jefferson
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about. — Vince Lombardi
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
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
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
Excellence is the new forever. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excellence demands that you be better than yourself. — Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
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
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding. — Stephen Covey
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
Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary. — Samuel Mockbee
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
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
Refuse to be average. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
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
Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence. — Don Shula
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
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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