Excellence Quotes

990 Excellence quotes by 615 unique authors

Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity… — Allen West
I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on. — Serena Williams
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. — Oprah Winfrey
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. — Oprah Winfrey
As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist. — Tiger Woods
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. — Virginia Woolf
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident. — Abdul Kalam
[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a… — Confucius
It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation;… — Thomas Mann
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world. — Dolly Parton
Do your best, and be a little better than you are. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we… — Vince Lombardi
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way… — Aristotle
He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness… — William Shakespeare
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give… — Randy Pausch
I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up — Frank O'Hara
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down.… — Elizabeth Gilbert

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