Top 1200 Passion For Excellence Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.

Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice. I intend to be part of the solution and not the problem. You've just got to keep on banging out good performances.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can...

If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

The pursuit of excellence is a continuous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit.

The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America.

Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.

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

The Age of Aquarius is the age of excellence in which personal purity shall absolutely matter.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

There are three sportsmen: Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, and Lionel Messi. They perform with excellence, like most of us could never dream of.

Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

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.

Every woman who proves that it is not about gender but about excellence paves the way.

I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

I have become convinced that the most overlooked tool in our medical arsenal is harnessing the body's own ability to heal through nutritional excellence.

Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

Mentally prepare ourselves for excellence...block out the noise of everyday distractions and tap into the quietness of meaningful focus, intent and a winning mindset.

I remember singing as a chorister in Peterborough Cathedral, having won a music scholarship to go to school there, and realising for the first time in my life what true excellence was.

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superiour to all private passions.

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.