Quotes About Excellence

Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

When I was younger, my dad did want me to be perfect, so that's probably why that's installed in me to this day. I want to be perfect at whatever I do. I can't help it. It's just installed in me.

Competition is the death of art.

There are a couple of ways to avoid death, one is to be magnificent.

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.

You just Sanisa in the death overs. He is simply the best in the world.

No guile. No artifice. No mischief. All that he had eliminated to achieve his perfection. No striving, no ambivalence, no doubleness—just the style, the natural physical refinement of a star.

It is the American pastoral par excellence and it lasts twenty-four hours.

Whatever we set out to make- a meal, a table, a bed- we should make as well as we can. To do otherwise is spiritless.

He resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

Everyone and everything needed to be raised to its highest level – the teacher must become a mage, the husband a knight errant, the labor a hero in a sacred drama – intensified, rarefied, baptized in the turbulent waters of restlessness, curiosity, and ardor.

We have to be more royal than royalty itself or nobody will believe us.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

Psychologically, enviers wish to be the one God loves most, the Chosen One, the one whose being radiates excellence. Many women wish to star in this role, and many do. The male universe has room for many more stars; the female universe is therefore much smaller, and the competition quite fierce for the limited number of starring roles.

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.