Quotes About Excellence

No matter how good you are at something, or how you rank your accomplishments, there is someone out there who makes you look incompetent.

Michelangelo's great perfect marble David cries out to its observer: "You could be more than you are.

Failure is the price we pay for standards and, because mediocrity has consequences both real and harsh, standards are necessary.

Finished beats perfect.

Attend to the day, but aim at the highest good.

The winners don't take all, but they take most, and the bottom is not a good place to be.

It is useful to take your place at the bottom of a hierarchy. It can aid in the development of gratitude and humility. Gratitude: There are people whose expertise exceeds your own, and you should be wisely pleased about that.

An idea begins to take shape: "I am going to live my life properly. I am going to aim at the good. I am going to aim at the highest good I can possible manage.

Um herói é algo positivo, não apenas a ausência do mal.

Agresija je u temelju ljudskoga poriva da bude izniman, nezaustavljiv, da se natje?e i pobijedi - da bude krjepostan, barem u jednom segmentu. Odlu?nost je njezino zadivljuju?e prosocijalno lice.

Excellence doesn't persist; time passes, and mediocrity asserts itself.*

el que se gana la credibilidad ahorra palabras.     Excelencia

un periodista eficaz —digamos Umbral— no alcanza la perfección de su arte con sólo ser informativo, concienzudo, verdadero, riguroso: tiene que tener además un estilo inconfundible.

The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, that is excellent, individual, qualified, and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialized elite groups. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone.

For, in fact, the common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes that it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly-endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed.

LA EMOCIÓN DEL IDEAL Cuando pones la proa visionaria hacia una estrella y tiendes el ala hacia tal excelsitud inasible, afanoso de perfección y rebelde a la mediocridad, llevas en ti el resorte misterioso de un Ideal. Es ascua sagrada, capaz de templarte para grandes acciones. Custódiala; si la dejas apagar no se reenciende jamás. Y si ella muere en ti, quedas inerte: fría bazofia humana.

La mediocridad está en no dar escándalo ni servir de ejemplo.

Es más contagiosa la mediocridad que el talento.

Los hombres excelentes, en cambio, desdeñan la opinión ajena en la justa proporción en que respetan la propia, siempre más severa, o la de sus iguales.

por eso la mediocridad es moralmente peligrosa y su conjunto es nocivo en ciertos momentos de la historia: cuando reina el clima de la mediocridad.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.