Quotes About Excellence

You've got to believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have what it takes. God created you to excel, and He's given you ability, insight, talent, wisdom, and His supernatural power to do so.

When you live a life of integrity, when you have a spirit of excellence, giving, serving, and treating people right, God's blessings will chase you down and overtake you.

The only competition you have is with yourself, to be the best that you can be.

There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. COLOSSIANS 3:23–24 NASB

I know I am blessed today because I had parents who honored God. I also had grandparents who prayed for me and modeled a life of excellence.

You can set a new standard. You were made for more.

No permitas que entre el cansancio Eso es lo que hizo David. Él hacía lo correcto, pero seguía sucediendo lo incorrecto. Incluso después de que Samuel lo ungió para ser el siguiente rey, su familia lo menospreciaba y lo trataba como si fuera de segunda clase. Él podría haberse amargado y molestado, pero en cambio siguió cuidando del rebaño de su padre, haciéndolo con excelencia.

were created to excel. There is potential in you right now just waiting to come out. You have gifts that will cause new doors to open, talent that will bring new opportunities. Get rid of low expectations. Quit making excuses to settle where you are.

But God didn't create you to be average. He created you to stand out, to go beyond the norm, to leave your mark on this generation. You have seeds of greatness on the inside. You're supposed to go further than the people who raised you. You're supposed to live better, be more successful, and set a new standard. You

It starts in your thinking. Nothing will change until you make up your mind that you are not going to accept mediocrity.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

In art the best is good enough.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

What I have lately said of painting is equally true with respect to poetry. It is only necessary for us to know what is really excellent, and venture to give it expression; and that is saying much in few words. To-day I have had a scene, which, if literally related, would, make the most beautiful idyl in the world. But why should I talk of poetry and scenes and idyls? Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?

Doar ce creeaza clipa, se dovedeste bun.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection."

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.