Excellence Quotes
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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner
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I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.
Barack Obama
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A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.
Caterina Fake
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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?
Lou Holtz
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
Tacitus
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Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
Leo Strauss
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People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.
Emily Lazar
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Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.
Azim Premji
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I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit.
Rich Mullins
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Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.
Raymond Loewy
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Demand excellence.
Emmitt Smith
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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.
William Ellery Channing
