Excellence Quotes

Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

Stephen Covey
You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

Eric Thomas
- Excellence

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon
You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

Francis Chan
- Effort
- Moral
- Virtue
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.

Stephen Fry
- School
- Art
- Excellence
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Will Durant
- Habit
- Excellence
Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

Ethan Hawke

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

Rita Coolidge