Excellence Quotes

990 Excellence quotes by 615 unique authors

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
I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has… — Leander Paes
Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is… — Tom Peters
If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international… — John Ridley
As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of… — F. Sionil Jose
Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and… — Shashi Tharoor
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence,… — Robin S. Sharma
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool. — Charlie Trotter
When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity. — Maximillian Degenerez
I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court. — Grant Hill
Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to… — Greg Anderson

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