Excellence Quotes
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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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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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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
William Hazlitt
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My mentors are those individuals who saw potential in me long before I perceived it in myself – or who challenged me to do more – the people who helped guide me toward excellence.
Ben Carson
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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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Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.
Sarah Churchwell
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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Joe Paterno
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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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I never thought that one day that this NAS Jax would be the center of aviation excellence in the Southeast and from pole to pole.
Ander Crenshaw
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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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Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.
Azim Premji
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Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
John Milton
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Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
Azim Premji
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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
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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.
Will Eisner
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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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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
John W. Gardner
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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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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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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Liberty Hyde Bailey