Quotes About Excellence

Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.

When what you have is more than enough, you're on the edge of impeccability.

Write immediately, yes! But as artist! Write with the task in mind—always trying to say the thing in the best way you can. The how! Not the what!

Messieurs, il faut aimer son aigle, l'aimer pour qu'il devienne beau ; car c'est parce qu'il sera beau que vous devez aimer votre aigle...

Walking to the net, I'm certain that I've lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation. I pity the young players who will have to contend with him. I feel for the man who is fated to play Agassi to his Sampras. Though I don't mention Pete by name, I have him uppermost in my mind when I tell reporters: It's real simple. Most people have weaknesses. Federer has none.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

I always wanted excellence. I wanted to attain it. I didn't start out with apologies. I thought: I am. I wanted to mix with the world, hands on, me and it, and I'd have courage. I wasn't born nice necessarily but nurture triumphed over nature and I wanted to be the good citizen.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.

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There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

You give your best because that's the only way to enjoy your work.

And all the branch possesses belongs to the vine. The branch does not exist for itself, but to bear fruit that can proclaim the excellence of the vine: it has no reason of existence except to be of service to the vine. Glorious image of the calling of the believer, and the entireness of his consecration to the service of his Lord.

Very few institutions thrive when they are left solely to "professionals," people who have made it their life's work to master a given domain of culture.

And so Jesus' power leads to overflow, abundance and excellence, that is, to flourishing.

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete

Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Every man, who proposes to grow eminent by learning, should carry in his mind, at once, the difficulty of excellence, and the force of industry; and remember that fame is not conferred but as the recompense of labour, and that labour, vigorously continued, has not often failed of its reward.

Your work is both good and original but the part which is original is not good and the part which is good is not original!

Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

So much are the modes of excellence settled by time and place, that men may be heard boasting in one street of that which they would anxiously conceal in another.

He discovered a great ambition to excel, which roused him to counteract his indolence. He was uncommonly inquisitive; and his memory was so tenacious, that he never forgot any thing that he either heard or read. Mr. Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses, which, after a little pause, he repeated verbatim, varying only one epithet, by which he improved the line.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.