Quotes About Excellence

We countenance each other in this life of show, puffing, 17 SUCCESS advertisement and manufacture of public opinion; and excellence is lost sight of in the hunger for sudden performance and praise.

All men are at last of a size; and true art is only possible, on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere. Fair play, and an open field, and freshest laurels to all who have won them! But heaven reserves an equal scope for every creature. Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the concave sphere, and beheld his talent also in its last nobility and exaltation.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. This native determination guides his labor and his spending. He wants an equipment of means and tools proper to his talent. And to save on this point were to neutralize the special strength and helpfulness of each mind. Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work, and not its acceptableness.

We countenance each other in this life of show, puffing, advertisement, and manufacture of public opinion; and excellence is lost sight of in the hunger for sudden performance and praise.

Dios no verá su trabajo hecho por cobardes. Un hombre está satisfecho y contento cuando ha puesto su corazón en su trabajo y ha hecho lo mejor que puede; pero cuando no actúe o hable en coherencia con esto, no tendrá paz.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone

Dr. Martin Luther King said, 'If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper, who did his job well.

Failure isn't losing, failure is mediocrity.

Making it to number one really means knowing where God wants you to be and serving him there with your best efforts. The goal, then, is to find the threads God has in place for you and to follow his plan for you with excellence.

Los triunfos y el estrellato no necesariamente conducen a la felicidad. Ser el mejor en realidad significa saber qué es lo que Dios quiere para nuestra vida y servirle en ese lugar para dar lo mejor de uno. La meta entonces es descubrir los hilos que Dios tiene preparados para nosotros y seguir su plan para nuestra vida con excelencia

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless.

Nobody, nobody is good enough

This is why the attainment of proficiency, the pushing of your skill with attention to the most delicate shades of excellence, is a matter of vital concern.  Efficiency of a practically flawless kind may be reached naturally in the struggle for bread.  But there is something beyond—a higher point, a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride beyond mere skill; almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art—which is art.

for conceit spoils the finest genius.

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition. (Said to Leopold Mozart)

Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better.

Unii se nasc mediocri, altii devin mediocri, iar altora li se impune mediocritatea.

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, Who has?

perfection of the life or of the work

Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.

Whatever your call may be, do it the best you know how, believing that you have heard from God. 12.