Excellence Quotes
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The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.
John F. Kennedy
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama
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As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.
F. Sionil Jose
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
Orison Swett Marden
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Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
Aristotle
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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
Aristotle
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I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
Kat Graham
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah Winfrey
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle
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I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves." Another "I was raised to believe that excellence is the deterrent to racism and sexism. And that's how I operate my life." And another "It does not matter who you are or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
Oprah Winfrey
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
Walter Bagehot
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
Aristotle
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
Ted Engstrom
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey
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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
Aristotle
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
Vernon Howard
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
Faye Wattleton
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This is the person you think is your antagonist, who ends up being your greatest ally: the person who pushes, criticizes, and challenges you to meet a standard of excellence you might not otherwise achieve.
Bonnie Hammer
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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
Aristotle
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But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
Lactantius
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Cultural and ethnic diversity benefit humanity’s future, survival, strength and excellence, promoting what I call cultural vigour, similar to the way in which molecular and genetic diversity promote 'hybrid vigor' in nature and thus strength, resilience and a higher potential for a problem-free future.
Nayef Al-Rodhan