Quotes About Excellence

Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

One of the best players I've ever seen in my life! Spectacular on training!! Playing with him was a joy!

People only do their best at things they truly enjoy

Let others lead small lives, but not you

Be superior to pleasure.

the best we know how.

Why bother doing something if you're only going to do it halfway?

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

Do not think, Oh, that I were delivered from all these afflictions and troubles here in this world! If you were, then you would have more ease yourself, but this is a way of honoring God, and manifesting the excellence of grace here, when you are in this conflict of temptation, which God shall not have from you in Heaven.

Know that this is the excellence of grace in a Christian, to be fitted for any condition; not only to say, if it were this or that, but if it were any.

It is but one side of a Christian to endeavor to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavor to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.

But godliness with contentment is great gain' (v.6)—there is the glory and excellence of it; as if to suggest that godliness were not gain except contentment be with it.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

I believe in a higher power, and I don't think She'd want us to accept mediocrity. I don't mean that everyone needs to dream of space, or scientific breakthroughs, or changing the whole world. Just that everyone should do what they love and do it as best they can. Whether you're surfing, teaching, or collecting trash—and want to be—hold your head high and kick ass.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

The successful fundraiser is the one who is disappointed by almost all that he does. Nothing is good enough. The gift isn't large enough, the presentation wasn't dramatic enough. But he will go on, persevere, work even harder to meet his high expectations.

They which run in a race run all, but one receives the crown. " But of us on the other hand it is said: " So run that you may obtain. " [ 1 Corinthians 9: 24 ] Our master of the games is not grudging; he does not give the palm to one and disgrace another. His wish is that all his athletes may alike win garlands.

if things which are good in themselves as being the handiwork of a good Creator are called vanity, it is because they are compared with things which are better still. For example, compared with a lamp, a lantern is good for nothing; compared with a star, a lamp does not shine at all; the brightest star pales before the moon; put the moon beside the sun, and it no longer looks bright; compare the sun with Christ, and it is darkness. " I am that I am, " God says; [ Exodus 3: 14 ]

Ozzie Smith just made a play that I have never seen before. And he's done it more times than anyone else.

The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.