Excellence Quotes

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

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Plato

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

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Joe Paterno

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Charles Dudley Warner

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

Jane Austen

Excellence always sells

Earl Nightingale

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Thomas Jefferson

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Ralph Marston

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

T.S. Eliot

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Robert Townsend

Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Samuel Johnson

To aim at erxcellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

John W. Gardner

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Pat Riley

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Greg Hickman

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

Alexander the Great

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