Quotes About Excellence

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.

whatever you become be good at it

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Your Business is to shine; therefore you must by all means prevent the shining of others, for their Brightness may make yours the less distinguished.

Melakukan yang terbaik lebih baik daripada mengucapkan yang terbaik

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

I have the highest regard for Meryl Streep as an actress and think she's a fabulous person as well.

That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect.

Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page are something you have to try to execute on the highest level you can; I'm not dismissing that by any regard.

One of my aims is to be the fastest and regarded as the best fast bowler in the world.

I'd love to have written a film and it to be regarded as good. I'd just like to be doing things that are good, really. I think that's all you can aim for. I find it odd when actors say they just want to do films or plays or television. A lot of films aren't very good; a lot of television isn't very good; a lot of plays aren't very good.

I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.

I want to get to a level where I am regarded as one of the best and coming to a club like Chelsea gives me the right platform to improve.

I believe in professionalism and I believe in putting on the best possible match regardless of the scenario for our audience.

I always feel I need to do well regardless of the level of the band.