Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Excellence

Excellence

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
All my life I've always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.--Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.--Stephen Jobs
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.--Hesiod
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of the immortals.--David Ogilvy
Excellence calls for character, integrity, fairness, honesty ... a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.--Price Pritchett
Excellence can be attained if you care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is safe, dream more than others think is practical, and expect more than others think is possible.--Unknown
Excellence does not require perfection.--Henry James
Excellence in any pursuit is the late, ripe fruit of toil.--W. M. L. Jay (Shiloh)
Excellence in education need not mean elitism, and equity need not mean mediocrity.--Mary Jean LeTendre
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.--Warren Bennis
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.--Aristotle
The excellence is in the details.--Gregory L. Sullivan
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.--Marva Collins ("Marva Collins: Teaching Success in the City" Message)
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.--Pat Riley
Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.--Ronnie Oldham
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.--Booker T. Washington
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.--Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence--only in constant improvement and constant change.--Tom Peters
The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self-esteem is excellence, mastery of our work.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.--Alexander the Great (in "Alexander" Plutarch's Lives)
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.--Charles C. Colton
If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from , and that is excellence in what you do.--Bill Pollard
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.--Thomas Watson
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.--Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.--Ellen Glasgow
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.--William Hazlitt (Characteristics in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims)
Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.--Earl Nightingale
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.--Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)
No one rises to low expectations.--Jesse Jackson
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Greatness" Letters and Social Aims)
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.--Cicero
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have comes from the knowledge that he can do something superlatively well.--Hortense Odlum (A Woman's Place)
The only certain means to excellence is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.--Og Mandino
Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.--Edwin Bliss
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.--Vince Lombardi
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.--Edwin Bliss
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.--Vince Lombardi
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.--Shana Alexander ("Neglected Kids--The Bright Ones" in The Feminist Eye)
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word--excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.--Pearl S. Buck
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.--Charles Swindoll
The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.--John Gardner
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.--John W. Gardner
Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.--Robert A. Heinlein (Have Space Suit—Will Travel)
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.--Harriet Braiker
There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.--Buck Rodgers
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.--David Starr Jordan
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and none so excellent that he cannot be excelled.--Baltasar Gracian (The Art of Worldly Wisdom)
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.--Samuel Johnson ("Pope" Lives of the English Poets)
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.—-Bayard Taylor
To enjoy the things we ought and hate the things we ought has the gretest bearing on excellence of character--Aristotle (Nicomacean Ethics)
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.--SunTzu
Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two very different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually different and are experienced differently.--Stephen R. Covey
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!--Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.--Henry Ward Beecher
What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.--Doris Lessing
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.--Helen Keller (Out of the Dark)
When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.--Eloise Ristad