Quotes About Excellence

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes it.

My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.

His only fault is that he has no fault.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

Perfectionism is slow death.

We're the best team in baseball. But not by much.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.

The very pink of perfection.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are, you never settle for playing anything less than your very best.