Excellence Quotes
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Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.
Og Mandino
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The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.
Brian Tracy
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Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.
Allen West
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I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.
T. D. Jakes
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Cuba became the sugar-producing and-exporting country par excellence; and if she did not develop even further in this respect, the reason is to be found in the capitalist contradictions which put a limit to a continuous expansion of the Cuban sugar industry, which depended almost entirely on North American capital.
Che Guevara
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You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give up, that we're calling these, quote, 'Chinese values,' 'cause I always thought of them as American values.
Amy Chua
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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Aristotle
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The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
Charles R. Swindoll
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We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty from around the world if we want to sustain our excellence.
Drew Gilpin Faust
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Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.
Azim Premji
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I'm a dreamer, and I'm a perfectionist, and I love excellence, and that's hardwired in me. But when I was young, I lived in a space for a long time where I only felt insufficient.
Christen Press
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My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.
John Kluge
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The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
Max Lerner
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Joe Paterno
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To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.
Charles Hodge
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I grew up in Philadelphia in a time where we took it for granted that we were supposed to be young and gifted and black. It was a culture of excellence - and all my friends were more talented than I was.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
Angela Duckworth
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The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand, and nobody cares about its color.
Daniel James, Jr.
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The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
Protagoras
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Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
John Milton
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The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.
Ken Robinson
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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca