Excellence Quotes

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The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and still be inside… — Price Pritchett
Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right.… — Price Pritchett
Strive for excellence, not perfection. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka aretÃ©), but excellence (aka aretÃ©) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men. — Socrates
Mediocrity always attacks excellence. — Michael Beckwith
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the… — Hesiod
Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance — Romany Malco
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in… — Price Pritchett
But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease.… — Price Pritchett
Excellence is a process, not just an outcome. Sure, we have to hold out for high standards in the products or services we provide. The… — Price Pritchett
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. — Aristotle
'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know… — John F. Kennedy
Even though . . . 9/11 happened because . . . Bush's FBI and CIA did not detect the Al Qaeda conspiracy . . .… — Vincent Bugliosi
Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten… — Brian May
Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I… — Ludwig Feuerbach
I am very pleased with the progress of the new CBS Corporation. The Company's rapid pace of change and innovative approach to emerging business opportunities… — Sumner Redstone
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate… — Socrates
Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence. — Bob Lutz

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