Excellence Quotes
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“We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
"Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them."
Quote by -Sophocles
"To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service."
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards."
Quote by -Brian Tracy
"We made excellent progress in 2005 by improving our management of the distribution channel, reducing inventories throughout the supply chain and reducing our capital spending and ultimately depreciation expense."
Quote by -Mark Thompson
"The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them."
Quote by -Lao Tzu
Appreciation is an excellent thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us, as well.
Quote by -Voltaire
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Quote by -Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Quote by -Aristotle
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves
Quote by -Aristotle
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
“But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.”
Quote by -John Wooden
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
Quote by -Lyndon B. Johnson
I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work.
Quote by -Vivienne Westwood
"We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself."
Quote by -Charles Lamb
"Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"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... not moving toward excellence."
Quote by -Denis Waitley
"Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"Whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like."
Quote by -David Sedaris
“Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Give me your details, and from an armchair I will return you an excellent expert opinion.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
Quote by -Walter Dean Myers
Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.
Quote by -Tony Benn
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Quote by -Rainer Maria Rilke