Famous Quotes & Sayings

Audre Lorde

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Bill O'Reilly

It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

Kevin Wilson

We want excellence in every area. We don't want excuses.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

Chanakya

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

William Shakespeare

Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

Patrick Kane

When we find a problem, we have service excellence teams that work through them.

Deepak Chopra

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Bill Gates

Hey, size works against excellence.

Charlie Trotter

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

Bill Rodgers

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

Bill Johnson

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

E. B. White

Usually I object when someone makes overmuch of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Jim Johnson

There needs to be some level of rewarding excellence and punishing mediocrity.

Thomas A. Edison

There's a way to do better... find it.

Jim Calhoun

As a friend and as a colleague, it's only fitting that we go in together. ... The way he's maintained excellence through all those years, Jim's had an incredible run.

Pete Carroll

This is a program that has found a level of excellence that's extraordinary. Now we'll go back to work and try to keep it going and get better.

Brian Tracy

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Brian Tracy

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Baltasar Gracian

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Baltasar Gracian

Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.

Bruce Henderson

Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

Edward Young

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Angela Johnson

We ran a fair program before. But the standard of excellence is higher. The quality is higher.

Aristotle

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

Aristotle

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Dave Ramsey

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

Dave Ramsey

Be an evangelist with your excellence.

We fully intend to take it to new levels of excellence,

Those that perform to a higher standard in serving a variety of stakeholders with excellence and integrity.

What a performance we're watching. It's just been a privilege to watch this kind of excellence.

What a performance we're watching. It's been a privilege to watch this kind of excellence. A lot like our first baseman. ... He's had a great, great year. Nobody has had a greater one.

Abraham Lincoln

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.