Quotes About Excellence

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level.

You get greatness out of people by expecting it.

The second fundamental error of Buddha consists in his placing human excellence in meditation rather than in action. The hero with him is always a saint, never a king.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow. Genius

The winner of the National or the All America has Champion written before his name from that day on, and never again may compete in open trials. He is a crowned king, whose sons and daughters are of the blood royal. He may not stoop to struggle with more common clay.

If a thing is done well, no one will ask how long it took to do it, but only, who did it.

Virtue is admirable, but boring.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

Absolute perfection belongs not to man, nor to angels, but to God alone.

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.