Quotes About Excellence

Le soufisme attire, séduit, tandis que l'islam fait figure de repoussoir. Quel paradoxe ! Le soufisme, plénitude de l'islam, voie d'excellence évoquée par le Prophète.

You can speak on justice and race with rhetorical excellence, but if the gospel isn't presented, heart change won't happen.

accomplishments should be on the lips of all

Everyone who ever heard him seems to have agreed that the exceeding excellence of Wilberforce's speaking ability was less in what he said than in how he said it.

the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before.

Asked some years later how he (Abel) had managed to forge ahead so rapidly to the front rank he replied, "By studying the masters, not their pupils"- a prescription some popular writers of textbooks might do well to mention in their prefaces as an antidote to the poisonous mediocrity of their uninspired pedagogics.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

Done is better than perfect if perfect ain't done.

Because doing the right thing is not the goal, doing the best thing is what you must strive for.

You will all make good warriors one day. Don't look so doubtful, Ravenpaw. You need to find only a little more courage to be as good as your denmates. Your hunting skills are excellent—Dustpaw, you'd do well to watch him. Who knows? You might even lead this Clan one day!

Beethoven speaking to royalty: "What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Romance it is undoubtedly who whispers to every man that life is not a blind and aimless business, not all a hopeless waste and confusion; and that his existence is a pageant (appreciatively observed by divine spectators), and that he is strong and excellent and wise: and to romance he listens, willing and thrice willing to be cheated by the honeyed fiction.

The moment any man aims to live to his Maker's glory, to live like a man, and not like a servant of the world or the Devil, to live for God's eye and service, to live from the divine motive--the only saving on, love--which is alike love for excellence, truth, goodness, and love for God, and love for God's children--that moment the world with its false standards and prices recedes and falls into its place. Then the humble, the pure and good, become our true nobility.

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

Details are but trifles, but details make for perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Shoot a lower score than everybody else

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection.

He attracted smart and dedicated people, and he emphasized a team approach

and he excelled at the diplomacy required of him by Europe's crisis.

even when we do not choose evil, we choose the good so half heartedly and with so many qualifications that mediocrity becomes our canonized statis quo.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Your party man, however excellent his intentions may be, is always opposed to any limitation of sovereignty. He regards himself as the next in succession, and handles gently the property that is to come to him, even while his opponents are its tenants.