Quotes About Excellence

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Because when you don't perform remarkably well the next time, back to slobhood you will go! And even when you do perform well, you will be anxious about not doing so next time. So you had better like your fine performance—but not deify yourself for doing it.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

C.C.Q Clear Communication creates good Cooperation, which leads to best Quality

And she would do great things.

Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success

Perhaps the most important element of each activity is to inspire a group of people to perform at their very best. The best teachers are the unsung heroes and heroines of any society,

Eleven Nobel laureates are not going to win the FA Cup.

Part of the pursuit of excellence involves eliminating as many surprises as possible because life is full of the unexpected.

the very best footballers were competing against themselves to become as good as they could be.

I never had a particular quota that I expected any player to fulfil, but they all knew I expected nothing but the best from them.

I don't like admitting, we were beaten by a great team, because we never wanted to say those words. The biggest concession we ever wanted to make was: two great teams contested this final, but we just missed out. Our aim was to attain that level where people said we were always on a par with Europe's best.

I have yet to encounter anyone who has achieved massive success without closing themselves off from the demands of others or forgoing pastimes. I'm not suggesting that being completely obsessed with a pursuit leads to a healthy lifestyle or eternal happiness, but I just cannot imagine how, if you aspire to be better than everyone else, you can have balance in your life.

My biggest fear is that the world may become drowned in artistic mediocrity.

Be this as it may, we know on the best authority that Nathanael was a man of great moral excellence. No sooner had Jesus seen him than He exclaimed, "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" The words suggest the idea of one whose heart was pure; in whom was no doublemindedness, impure motive, pride, or unholy passion: a man of gentle, meditative spirit, in whose mind heaven lay reflected like the blue sky in a still lake on a calm summer day.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

The excellence of the trial by jury in civil cases appears to depend on circumstances foreign to the preservation of liberty. The strongest argument in its favor is, that it is a security against corruption. As there is always more time and better opportunity to tamper with a standing body of magistrates than with a jury summoned for the occasion, there is room to suppose that a corrupt influence would more easily find its way to the former than to the latter.

What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.

It's aft the most honour may be, but forrard you finds the better men.

Let such teach others who themselves excel,And censure freely who have written well.

Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

Let such teach others who themselves excel

Act well your part; there all the honour lies.

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.