Excellence Quotes
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The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.
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Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
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Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
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Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners... Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence... Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation.
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As a Navy SEAL, and sniper, one of the things I learned was that excellence matters.
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Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use.
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Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.
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Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?
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They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.
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Still constant is a wondrous excellence.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
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Christians should ultimately do everything that we do with excellence. There's a story about repairs in the Sistine Chapel ... when some repair work was being done the craftsmen saw that the work on the other side of the plaster, the part not visible to the human eye was done with the same kind of craftsmanship that was done on what was visible and observable. And the explanation for that is that the work that Christians do is not just for human consumption, but it is also for the eyes of God.
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When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.
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It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.
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The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.
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This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.
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Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.
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I am inspired by the professionalism of others. I believe there is an obligation to strive for excellence in what one is asked to do. No pains are too great, no revisions too tedious no matter how small the result. But I also believe that while humility should not be overdone, excellence should never be taken for granted, otherwise we stop reaching for it.
