Quotes About Excellence

Always act as if you are living the epitome of a magnificent life.

Never fear to be wonderful.

A genius is usually born on the way to relentless perfection with tireless persistence.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character.

The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

We must demand excellence of ourselves and agitate and advocate justice from the larger society.

Set the bar high. Resist the easy button. Choose "mastery" over "easy" and know that great accomplishments don't come from low expectations.

mediocre marketing with commitment works better than brilliant marketing without commitment.

Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can. What your co-workers say about you, what your opponent is doing -- that doesn't matter.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.