Excellence Quotes

It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Douglas Malloch

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

Jane Austen

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Channing Pollock

Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Ivan Benson

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Wilferd A. Peterson

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Virginia Woolf

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Sir Walter Scott

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

George Eliot

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Oliver Goldsmith

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles de Gaulle

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Jerry Garcia

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Les Brown

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

John Stuart Mill

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for

Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreem

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

W. Somerset Maugham

Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Dean Briggs

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Jean de la Bruyere