Excellence Quotes

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T Washington 1856

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence.

Orison Swett Marden

Paint a masterpiece daily. Always autograph your work with excellence.

Greg Hickman

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

Aristotle

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren G. Bennis

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Harriet Braiker

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

Brian Tracy

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Benedict Spinoza

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Ralph Marston

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Rick Pitino

Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters

Seneca

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

John W. Gardner

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

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Pat Riley

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation

Horace

Excellent things are rare.

Plato

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