Quotes About Excellence

Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes.

Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.