Quotes on Excellence

It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society is to encourage excellence. But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.

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.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.