Excellence Quotes

Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.

It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.

The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand, and nobody cares about its color.

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.

I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.

Excellence requires discomfort.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.

God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

Patience is also a form of action.

Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason