Quotes About Excellence

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

The difference in being good at some thing and being great at something is usually found in the little things.

Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest

I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.