Top 1200 Striving For Excellence Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.
All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.
It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.
Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.
To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.
Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.
What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.
Understanding why we are here, what we are supposed to be doing, relationships, and striving to do more other than play football - when you get understanding like that and apply it, it works wonders.
The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.
Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.
I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.
Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of creativity, and that striving to always make the greatest version of something.
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.
No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it.
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.
If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.
I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
The Age of Aquarius is the age of excellence in which personal purity shall absolutely matter.
Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.
I think I always just want to get better at whatever I'm doing... Always strive for excellence.
When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.
Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can...
There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.
Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.
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.
Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.
Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
The pursuit of excellence is a continuous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit.
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.
Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.
The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
I think that the things that are interesting sometimes, when you're striving for a sound, you just get it wrong 'cause of your own limitations. That's when you get something kind of original.
The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America.
I want wins and losses to matter. That is the point of wrestling, everyone is striving to be a champion and your stature in the company is marked by your win-loss record.
Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.
By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.
Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.
Ideas, dreams, and goals morph as we experience life, so I'm not sure I can look at it like there's something I haven't yet achieved since I will always be striving for something more.
People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.
Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.
We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were so stoked for that.
The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.
This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
