Excellence Quotes - page 2

He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him. (William Shakespeare)
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. View quote
Warren Bennis
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. View quote
Aristotle
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. View quote
Aristotle
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead the one being an innate desire of pleasure the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. View quote
Socrates
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. View quote
Paul J. Meyer
Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting. View quote
Charlie Trotter
Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better. View quote
Edwin Louis Cole
But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part. View quote
Lactantius
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great. (Andy Hertzfeld)
Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence. View quote
Victoria Principal
To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. ... If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules. View quote
William Hazlitt
In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence. View quote
John Turner
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. View quote
George Eliot
If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when? View quote
Tom Peters
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Swift blazing flag of the regiment, Eagle with crest of red and gold, These men were born to drill and die. Point for them the virtue of slaughter, Make plain to them the excellence of killing And a field where a thousand corpses lie. View quote
Stephen Crane
If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
To hate excellence is to hate the gods. View quote
Mary Renault
No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these. View quote
James Mill
It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence. View quote
Anthony Trollope