Top 1200 Passion For Excellence Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples."

Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.

I think I always just want to get better at whatever I'm doing... Always strive for excellence.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.

The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.

Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.

I think I always just want to get better at whatever Im doing... Always strive for excellence.

Most of India is rural; there is a huge population in India not being tapped for their excellence. They have no access to great universities.

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

Your job, work, life assignment must be the spark that fuels your fire. It must be a passion that you pursue. You must want it enough to do it for free. You must be willing to stick with it, taking the ups and downs, giving it all that you are for as long as you can! You’ve got to taste it, smell it, know it whether you are awake or asleep. If you do not have a lustful passion for your work, you really need to find something else to do.

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

If you ever come to one of my seminars, you will notice I have volunteer workers. When I work with individuals like that, I expect a level of excellence displayed. Everything has to be done perfectly.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets who, like Byron, express these states, Poetry would lack something.

The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In this passion all other passions died; before this vision all other visions faded; this call drowned all other voices. They were the pioneers of the Kingdom, the forelopers of God, eager to cross the border-marches and discover new lands or win new-empires

It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.

Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's on the other side, and everyone has a story to tell os a woman or a brothel or an opium night or a war. We fear it. We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much.

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

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.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

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

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.

Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.

To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Stay focused on your mission, remain steadfast in your pursuit of excellence, and always do the right thing.

The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.

I think that's the coolest thing about our fans, they not only respect, but they demand, excellence from our guys.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.

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.