Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Excellence.
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.
Lee Iacocca
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats
Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.
Bob Beamon
Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.
Woodrow Wilson
Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty.
Proverb
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
William Hurt
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
Janet Erskine Stuart
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire, Letter
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.
Hesiod, Works and Days
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Denis Waitley
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Steve Young
The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...
Dr. David Schwartz
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Flannery O'Connor
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
Andre Godin
Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
Eric Parslow
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley
