Excellence Quotes

Never climb the tree with the reason of plucking a fruit, only to get there and pick a leaf. Let everything you get there to do be done and let it be done well!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Multiply your potentials with your plans and it will be equal to your purpose of existence. Your potentials are your seeds of greatness.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Often, our relationships become an unrealized quest for what is perfect, unfettered, and free of flaws. We expect our partners, spouses, and our friends to avoid missteps and to be magical mind readers. These secret expectations play a sinister part in many of the great tragedies of our lives: failed marriages, dissipated dreams, abandoned careers, outcast family, deserted children, and discarded friendships.We readily forget what we once knew as children: our flaws are not only natural but integral to our beings. They are interwoven into our soul’s DNA and yet we continually reject the crooked, wrinkled, mushy parts of our life rather than embrace them as the very essence of our beings.I once believed that aiming for perfection would land me in the realm of excellence. This, however, may not be the trajectory of how things happen. In fact, the pursuit of perfection may be the biggest obstacle to becoming whole.It seems essential to value hard work and determination and yet recognize that the road to excellence is littered with mistakes and subsequent lessons. Imperfection and excellence are intertwined. There is joy in our pain, strength in weakness, courage in compassion, and power in forgiveness.

~ Ann Brasco

Don’t let the fact you haven’t done something before convince you that you can’t do it, or that it cannot be done perfectly the first time you try your hand at it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

The pain of failure had led me to understand that technical excellence was a moral requirement.

~ Paul Kalanithi

What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

~ Cameron C. Taylor

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor riches, beauty nor strength, genius nor eloquence have any value in Your eyes, Lord, unless allied to grace. For the gifts of nature are common to good men and bad alike, but grace or love are Your especial gift to those whom You choose, and those who are sealed with this are counted worthy of life everlasting.

~ Thomas À Kempis

The adjuration to be normal seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of normal to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, a priori, abnormal.

~ Karl Menninger

Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part.

~ Shawn Achor

Happiness, Success, Excellence: They are not something you get for knowing the path; they are something you experience by walking it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

~ Onyi Anyado

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

~ Adam Smith

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

~ Dolly Parton

Always give your best, today's great work is tomorrow's benchmark.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

~ Adam Smith

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

~ Thomas Watson

Excellence will give you the recognition you crave for, but humility will keep you standing longer than expected.

~ Rebecca Edmund

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

~ Ralph Marston

Our attitude focus on excellence not only made us successful but also timelessly inspirational.

~ Kishore Bansal

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.

~ Onyi Anyado

Excellence! We all want it from others and we should want it from ourselves.

~ Glenn C. Stewart

Always give everything 110 percent. It's the extra 10 percent that everyone remembers.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you’re just never quite good enough.

~ Dawn Gluskin

You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life.

~ Steve Maraboli

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

~ Victor J. Banis

It’s better to do one thing well than ten things poorly.

~ Heather Hart

Simply giving something ‘a shot’ is not giving something our ‘best,’ for our best is made up of as many ‘shots’ as it takes in order to be our best.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am determined to do my very best.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I resolve to do my very best in everything.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

~ Habeeb Akande

Excellence is the jet engine, that pushes you faster and higher to success.

~ Mark F. Lamoure

A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth

~ Thiruvalluvar

Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that will make us have quality churches that will make us bring kingdom of God to the earth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

~ William Deresiewicz

The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

~ Michael Finkel

What the average call excellent, the excellent call average.

~ Onyi Anyado

Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that cause things to happen.

~ Sunday Adelaja