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Quotes About Excellence

Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.
~ John Wooden
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it again?
~ John Wooden
Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
~ John Wooden
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective, it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Be one of the best, or suffer like the rest.
~ Elizabeth White
Plato—"No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God.
~ Ellen Crosby
The highest evidence of nobility in a Christian is self-control. We
~ Ellen G. White
A great man or woman is any man or woman who outperforms his or her counterparts in a particular field, sphere, dispensation or a given period of time i.e. extraordinariness or uncommonness is nothing but a sign of greatness. But, mind you nobody has ever become truly great by his or her own strenght, intelligence, wealth or hardwork. Yes! it takes only God's grace to achieve true greatness in anything in life (Psalms 75 : 6).
~ Emeasoba George
Anything worth doing is equally worth doing properly. As well, anything worth saying is worth saying boldly (without fear, compromise or favour). ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Difference between excellence and mediocrity is nothing else but determined decision and quest to be recognized as a world-class and to remain a world-class. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Epitomize yourself i.e. strive to be a typical and perfect example of who long to be. In other words, endeavour to do your best in order to become the best that you can be. Take Note: you can epitomize your own self and then become the best that you can be through passion, vision, aspiration, courage, originality, uniqueness, hardwork and persistence. ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
God (Almighty) is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. That is to say, God is fantastically and extraordinarily good, wonderful and awesome all-round. In fact, God's Greatness is incomparable. ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Mediocrity, inferiority complex and low self-esteem are the causes of self-doubt (lack of confidence in your own self or in your own ability). Yes! that is just the causes. So, desist from all of the above. - Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Never give anything for recognition. Just endeavour to give something worthy of recognition always. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
To do one's best is nothing else but maximum utilization of the ability that one has. In other words, anyone who fails to utilize his or her ability (physically, intellectually or otherwise) maximally has not really done his or her best (to my mind). ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
To do oneself justice is just to perform as well as one is able. Take this from me, whoever that does justice to himself/herself/his or her work/career can't and won't be bothered about criticisms no matter the acuteness of the criticism. Anyway, have you been doing justice to yourself/work/career?
~ Emeasoba George
Uniqueness or originality is nothing else but doing ordinary things extraordinarily. And guess what! That is just what gives rise to excellence and profitability eventually. Thus, be and remain unique or original in all you do. ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
You are not average. Yes! you are above average or rather you are excellent. Besides that, you are a unique combination of DNA that has never been known and will never be seen again in this world. Thus, do all you love to do most positively, uniquely, impactfully and passionately. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
This statesman was no conqueror, but his superiority consisted in his moral conquest; this President vanquished no foreign people, and his superiority lay in his self-constraint; this excellent judge of human nature cast a spell over nobody, yet is more fascinating than the shining victors of history.
~ Emil Ludwig
Every anomaly seduces us, Life in the first place, that anomaly par excellence.
~ Emil M. Cioran
In many matters of business, perhaps in most, a continuity of mediocrity is better than a hotch-potch of excellences.
~ bagehot walter viii
Beauty is an ill-defined attribute of certain members of an ill-defined class; and for the class itself there is no very convenient name. We might describe its members as "objects of aesthetic interest" always bearing in mind that this description (as I use it) applies to objects of the most varying degrees of excellence—to the small as well as the great, the trifling as well as the sublime: to conjuring and dancing; to literature, art, and natural beauty.
~ balfour arthur james vi
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
~ Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
~ Baltasar Gracian