Excellence Quotes

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

~ Thornton Wilder

To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader. If it doesn't, it risks becoming yet another mediocre corporation.

~ Howard Schultz

Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your life...

~ James A. Murphy

To have a man whose name is on the label showing such interest, commitment, and determination for the best is a wonderful thing. This is someone who will throw money at quality, who believes in being the best. Never knock it. Would you prefer to have a bean counter in corporate headquarters, someone who never comes near the brewery, making decisions solely on the basis of the bottom line and profit margins?

~ Charles W. Bamforth

I tried to bunked classes, I skipped lectures, I cheated in exams, I lied to my teachers and some stuff were taken for granted when I was a student before. I am not proud about it. Of course, I learned from that experience. I learned that everyone has a chance to change. It doesn't mean that if I am dumbass before and you call me the same thing now. Because now, I work hard, play the game well and strive for excellence. This is me now, a guy with a strong grit in my heart.

~ Nathaniel E. Quimada

My greatest joy is in helping others be their best.

~ Amber Hurdle

Life is like a road, It has highways and detours

~ Frank Puglisi

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

We downplay our excellence when we only depend on miracles.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The gospel of the kingdom talks about excellence.

~ Sunday Adelaja

One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

~ Peter Drucker

Gravity keeps your body down from flying high. On the other hand, nothing can keep you down from outperforming yourself and from continually growing to become excellent.

~ Assegid Habtewold

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attidute.

~ Ralph Marston

There can be no excellence without insight.

~ Paul Bamikole

If performance of duty is part of excellence, then it should give satisfaction and happiness.

~ Anuj Bajaj

Wisdom clears the mind of delusions thus making it more focused to achieve excellence.

~ #Name?

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

~ Richard Baxter

A world in which deliberate practice is a normal part of life would be one in which people had more volition and satisfaction.

~ Anders Ericsson

There is one art, no more, no less, to do all things with artlessness.

~ Anonymous

To live a life of excellence, you will have to take risks. You will have to step into new territory and climb new mountains. If you’re up to something that’s as big as you are, it’s going to be scary. If it feels perfectly safe, you are probably underachieving. To leave your mark in the world, you will have to stand someplace you’ve never been willing to stand before. And you will have to have the courage to aspire to excellence.

~ Debbie Ford

for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

~ Plato

To live a life of excellence, you will have to take risks. You will have to step into new territory and climb new mountains. If you’re up to something that’s as big as you are, it’s going to be scary. If it feels perfectly safe, you are probably underachieving. To leave your mark in the world, you will have to stand someplace you’ve never been willing to stand before. And you will have to have the courage to aspire to excellence. To create an extraordinary life you will have to be present in each moment and give 100 percent of yourself. You will have to commit each day to being the best you can be, and aspire to perform your daily tasks in the most conscious way possible. Living your best year requires you to take a moment each time you’re about to make a move—whether you are about to deliver a communication, make a decision, or put something into your body—and make sure that move reflects the very highest choice you could make. 

~ Debbie Ford

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

~ H.w. Brands

Imagine yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself with dedication to excellence, from daily self-improvement and practice. Enjoy the process.

~ Mark F. Lamoure

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.

~ Jo Walton

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

~ Mark Batterson

Think of your day as a blank canvas, and everything you say, your art upon it. Then join your loved ones and friends, and create lasting beauty together, worthy of your inner Rembrandt.

~ Tom Althouse

Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

~ C.s. Lewis

Autograph your life with a signature of excellence.

~ Mark Lamoure

Stamp your performance with excellence.

~ Sherman Morris

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?

~ Murad S. Shah

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.

~ Aristotle

There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.

~ David Ault

People can easily forget how fast you did your work, but can hardly forget how well you did it.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.

~ Vincent Lombardi

Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life's tapestry.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.- Aristotle

~ Marco G. Casteleijn

In any profession, you will be respected if you are good at your job – not because you are good at talking about your beliefs. It may be quite irrational, but the fact is that, if you are recognized as being outstanding on one thing, you will be listened to on all sorts of subjects in no way related to it... and so, if you are going to be really effective [for your cause] in your place of work, you must set out to be the best man at your job.

~ Douglas Arnold Hyde

Leadership is bringing people into new realms of excellence and challenging them to become distinguished in their chosen field.

~ Onyi Anyado

Be a reflection of excellence.

~ Steve Maraboli