The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.
Brian Tracy
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
Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters
Seneca
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
There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.
Unknown
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
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
Unknown
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Voltaire
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
The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.
Thomas Jefferson
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer