Top 1200 Personal Excellence Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.

Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.

Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.

Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us.

We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.

Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.

I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.

God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty?one that everything afterward savors of anti?climax.

When I was in government, what we would used to mystically call 'the kinetic option' was way down on our list. In my personal thinking - in my personal thinking, I need to emphasize that - I have begun to consider that that may not be the worst of all possible outcomes.

I thank Burns & Wilcox for its support and look forward to representing the company's values and commitment to excellence on the links.

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a person. If you're not in that boat, which most people are not, personal branding makes no sense.

Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blogging, but now there are more topic-oriented blogs. It's really about personal expression, and that's just gotten bigger and broader.

I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.

Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.

Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

Most of the photographs I make are personal pictures and never end up in print. Even the magazines I shoot for on assignment publish very few of the actual selects. Sometimes these personal pictures will end up in a book of my work. Oftentimes, however, they are simply photographs which I hope resonate, yet rarely find a publication home. I do a lot of personal work in Rio de Janeiro, and this of a parkour artist making a jump on Ipanema Beach is such a moment.

Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how crappy they feel.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

My advice to anyone being picked on for being different or for working towards a dream is to remember it's never personal. These people don't actually dislike you at heart. They're just going through difficult things in their own personal lives.

Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don't even do that.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures.

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write about war and politics and public life, while women confine themselves to family and food and personal life.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

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

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.