Quotes About Excellence

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

(after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can't hang with eagles.

Achievement has no color

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my best each and every day.

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

She remembers Voltaire's warning about the perfect being the enemy of the good.

Paradoxically, the best way to attract good work is by doing good work.

In the last moments of his life Ciro realized that a truly good man is a rarity, a speck of gold in a mountain of slag.

Bigger Bolder Superior

Analogising architecture with ethics helps us to discern that there is unlikely ever to be a single source of beauty in a building, just as no one quality can ever underpin excellence in a person.

excellence and, 'if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat'.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Mediocrity does not befit your true magnitude.

La Santidad me creó santo. La Bondad me creó bondadoso. La Asistencia me creó servicial. La Perfección me creó perfecto.

Labour at your work until people cannot imagine what you have designed existing any other way.

We're just too good at our job." "Damn it," Valkyrie scowled. "I hate being too good at our job.

Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success.

The difference between me and them, they constantly look up to each other; I look up to legends. -MillYentei

Whatever you do in life; do it so well that when haters see the presence of you; they will instantly become sickened in their stomach's. -MillYentei

The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.

Be the best you can be, in the worst of circumstances, even when no one is watching.