Quotes About Excellence

Being number two gives you the glory of being at the top without the pressure of being number one.

If you choose to do something make sure you give your 100% in it otherwise there's no good in doing it.

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

Go the extra mile! It's never crowded.

To keep moving forward in life it is a must that we keep a continual attitude of positivity, and excellence. Keep a smile on your face, even in the most trying of times.

But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips.

This is how mortals found fame, I thought. Through practice and diligence, tending their skills like gardens until they glowed beneath the sun. But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.

Una barca ben costruita, un albero ben cresciuto, una storia ben raccontata, tutti questi per lui erano piaceri.

Best of men. Best of the Myrmidons.

How much more interesting it is, with its frank display of the labour needed to attain the perfection of the finished piece.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Wer in der Liebe Gottes bleibt, geht nicht den vorgeschriebenen Weg der Vortrefflichkeit in der Welt, sondern eigene, unverständliche, oft törichte Wege.

Antes que poeta hubiera preferido ser un buen banderillero

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.

After all, the better the developers you have, the better the product you build.

I was learning from the best.

that only those who dare, who demanded more of themselves than others believed possible, could make great things happen.

Empresa más fácil podemos acometer. Una región hay, si no miente antigua y profética tradición del cielo, hay un mundo, dichosa mansión de un ser nuevo llamado Hombre, que por este tiempo ha debido ser criado semejante a nosotros, inferior en poderío y excelencia, pero más favorecido del Hacedor supremo.

When he who rules is worthiest, and excells   Them whom he governs. This is servitude,   To serve th' unwise, or him who hath rebelld   Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee,   Thy self not free, but to thy self enthrall'd;

It is, moreover, evident from hence that it is a greater matter to be truly and really holy than most persons are aware of. We may learn eminently how great and excellent a work this of sanctification and holiness is from the causes of it. How emphatically doth our apostle ascribe it unto God, even the Father: 1 Thess. v. 23, "Even the God of peace himself sanctify you." It is so great a work as that it cannot be wrought by any but the God of peace himself.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing.