Quotes About Excellence

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.

Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?