Top 1200 Personal Excellence Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

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

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

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

We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the personal emphasis within that legal concept. In the Church the elder is an office-bearer. But both the preaching elders and the ruling elders are "ministers," and the word "minister" is a personal relationship, it does not speak of dominance. There is to be order in the Church, but the preaching elder or the ruling elder is to be a minister, with a loving personal relationship with those who are before him, even when they are wrong and need admonition.

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

When I went on 'The Hills,' I never showed my personal life. It was always about my career life - I thought people could take me seriously because they'd see I'm a hard-working girl. Then when I chose to do 'The City,' I took the next step to show my personal life.

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

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

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

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

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

It is that the Spirit is the outbreathing of God, His inmost life going forth in a personal form to quicken. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive the inmost life of God Himself to dwell in a personal way in us. When we really grasp this thought, it is overwhelming in its solemnity. Just stop and think what it means to have the inmost life of that infinite and eternal Being whom we call God, dwelling in a personal way in you. How solemn and how awful and yet unspeakably glorious life becomes when we realize this.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal … “Close is what the music inspire you to become. The embrace looks personal, but what we are actually embracing is the music.

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

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

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

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

I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

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

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

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

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

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

Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.

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

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

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

My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of course, she was a talkative, jolly, interminably curious woman, who loved people, and who enjoyed the personal details of their lives almost as much as they did themselves.

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.

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

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

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

Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task.