Quotes About Excellence

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

And together we're going to make the McMurtry farm the best damn small farm/ venue/ vacation spot the world has ever seen.

Are you really as good as they say?" "No," she said calmly. "We're better.

1894-5, he won straight 5s (A grades) for Georgian singing and language and scores like 4, 5, 4, 5 in scripture. He was a model student, earning an 'excellent 5' for behaviour.

Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins.

It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

We know that chasing efficiency too far leads to fragility, and the current excellence models lack explicit minimal governance safeguards and the justification of weighting to be seen currently as universal models of anti-fragility.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

The Law is the true embodimentOf everything that's excellent.It has no kind of fault or flaw,And I, my Lords, embody the Law.

I love Jet Li, he's really special.

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

People doing what they love and doing it well always inspires me.

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

You can never be great at anything unless you love it.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.