Quotes About Excellence

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One does one's best - Silk

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

Life is life tennis: Those who serve best usually win.

La belleza no es un objetivo de los deportes competitivos, pero los deportes de alto nivel son escenarios privilegiados para la expresión de la belleza humana. La relación se aproxima a la que existe entre la valentía y la guerra

It is important to avoid trying to create something that is average in all dimensions.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Take pains. Be perfect.

He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

What you do Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet. I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing, I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms, Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that; move still, still so, And own no other function: each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deed, That all your acts are queens.

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady. Would 'twere done.

he hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age; doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion:

Las personas que triunfan a largo plazo son aquellas que tienen una actitud positiva y que han creado una reputación de excelencia

son aquellas que tienen una actitud positiva y que han creado una reputación de excelencia

The maxim Nothing avails but perfection may be spelt p-a-r-a-l-y-s-i-s

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

The maxim, Nothing prevails but perfection, may be spelled PARALYSIS.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Resposibility is the price of greatness.

If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.