Quotes About Excellence

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.

It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.

Excellence is never an accident.

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

Pursue excellence; ignore success.

I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.

Be an evangelist with your excellence.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Excellence nourishes the soul.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.