Quotes on Excellence

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

One thing about excellence, it&Mac226;s an exclusive club. And it&Mac226;s only for those who really want to pay dues to the s--. My daddy told me when I was a boy: The only way you can be different from other people is to do some s-- they don't want to do.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success

Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.