Excellence Quotes - page 15

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. (José Ortega y Gasset)
Oh man, at that end not much has been left of your excellence, nothing of all that you have been boasting about through life - only sex, fear, self-admiration and a few other things you are usually ashamed of. View quote
Karel Čapek
An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute The exterior is not persuasive. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Cricket at the highest level has never been simply a demonstration of sporting excellence; it has always been about winning and losing. View quote
James Coldham
There's a deeper reason, though, for not striving for excellence, ... and it has to do with how we view ourselves and our endeavors in this world. Many of us recognize that not trying is a reasonable excuse for not succeeding. That is, if we don't give something our best effort, we can always point to that fact as the basis for poor results. If, on the other hand, we give... everything we've got and still don't win, well, that's a fairly bitter pill to swallow.... I don't buy this defeatist attitude. View quote
John Vorhaus
Perhaps there are times of inherent excellence. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Fiction is but moulding together the materials collected by every day, in real as well as imagined life; the highest order of excellence carries the impulse along with it. Nature and fortune have this earth for their place of contention, and the victory is too often with the latter. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Excellence, in any department, can only be attained by the labor of a lifetime. It is not purchased at a lesser price. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay. (Ambrose Bierce)
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence an attribute of the critic. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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 dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity. View quote
Shashi Tharoor
I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity. View quote
Al Gore
Cultural and ethnic diversity benefit humanity's future, survival, strength and excellence, promoting what I call cultural vigour, similar to the way in which molecular and genetic diversity promote "hybrid vigor” in nature and thus strength, resilience and a higher potential for a problem-free future. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan
Moreover, he must address himself not to a special and unique sense like hearing, which the musician bends to his will, and which is, besides, the organ par excellence of expectation and attention; but rather to a general and diffused expectation, and he does so through a language which is a very odd mixture of incoherent stimuli. View quote
Paul Valéry
We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. View quote
William Wilberforce
And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but neer will reach an excellence. View quote
John Dryden
Ministries that have it tend to be focused on a limited set of targets. They do a few things as if all eternity hinged on their results, and they do these things with godly excellence. Their vision is characterized by specificity. Selectivity. Exclusivity. View quote
Craig Groeschel
The church and the world alike demand that those who profess to love the Lord should be careful to love their brethren also. It is for them to have in essentials unity, in non-essentials diversity, in all things charity. Only so can the church realize the ideal of its Divine Founder, and foreshadow its future excellence and beauty. Only so can this spiritual structure be celestial and glorious, revealing in all its fair proportions from dome and turret, from glittering spires and airy traceries, its marvelous symmetry and oneness, while at the same time it swells from every organ pipe, and chants in every choral anthem the praises of Him whose essence is love, and whose being is characterized by unity. View quote
John McClellan Holmes
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. (Oliver Goldsmith)
She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves. View quote
Frances Burney
I hope that we all agree that the aim is to provide the right education for every child. For some children, that will be an education that is firmly based in learning practical and vocational skills. For others, it will be an education based on academic excellence. View quote
Theresa May
Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it. View quote
Tim Cook
Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends. View quote
C. T. Studd