Top 1200 Personal Excellence Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand, and nobody cares about its color.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

I put myself out there, trying to prove that beauty is beyond size. It was risky, sure, but what I risked in terms of personal pride was nothing in comparison to what I was rewarded in terms of personal fulfillment.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

Washington is a very complicated city. You have to work the personal relationships. They are politicians, they are congressmen, they are senators, but they are human beings. And for them to get to know you on a personal level really, really makes the difference.

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.

That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.

Don't dismiss Auriemma and UConn just because their excellence shines on the female side of the coin.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.

I'm private in the sense that I like my personal space and only want people in the parts of my business that I choose to share. Anything I feel is too personal to share publicly, I keep to myself.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it.

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time.

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth - the understanding of what makes you tick as an individual - as well as personal development.

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

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

Sometimes all we need is only listening to an inner voice and remaining human in a very personal way. But even if it is a personal way, it's still a very valid way - maybe the most valid way. It doesn't have to be a collective experience or someone telling you what to do. The most sacred human experience can be a very personal one.

Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle, as well as the skill to use it well, truly makes a man the monarch of all he surveys. It realizes the ancient dream of the Jovian thunderbolt, and as such it is the embodiment of personal power. For this reason it exercises a curious influence over the minds of most men, and in its best examples it constitutes an object of affection unmatched by any other inanimate object.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.

The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.

I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time ago when he was an inexperienced, young actor and now with maturity and hindsight, he has learned not to engage the press in his personal life again.