Quotes About Excellence

When Leo is on the field, everything turns in favor of Barca. He is five steps above the rest.

If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Good is not good where better is expected

Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he was consistent: the wanted the best of everything, for himself and for his country.

I am not impressed with what people own. But I'm impressed with what they achieve. I'm proud to be a physician. Always strive to be the best in your field…. Don't chase money. If you are the best in your field, money will find you.

I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

This was the same warning José Ortega y Gasset gave when he wrote Revolt of the Masses in 1930: "The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything 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."24 "I'm as good as you," Screwtape chortles at the end of his address, "is a useful means for the destruction of democratic societies.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

Destiny never defames herself but when she lets an excellent poet die.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be.

whoever the men be to whom the government of any country is entrusted, they ought to be the best and wisest that can be found, and if they are not so, they are not fit for the station.

Formula for success Underpromise and overdeliver.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Let us show ourselves godly by being more spiritual in duty. It is not the quantity, but the quality which God is concerned with. It is not how much we do but how well.

Si quiere usted alcanzar la excelencia, puede lograrlo hoy mismo. A partir de este segundo, no haga ningún trabajo que no sea excelente.

Let it not be said that repentance is difficult. Things that are excellent deserve labour. Will not a man dig for gold in the ore though it makes him sweat? It is better to go with difficulty to heaven than with ease to hell.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.

If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.