Sayings about Excellence
Excellence is not being the best; it is doing your best. ~ Bible
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ~ John W. Gardner
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. ~ Wendell Berry
Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one common pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. ~ Samuel Johnson
All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose. ~ John W. Gardner
Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence. ~ Plato
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. ~ John W. Gardner
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. ~ Eric Hoffer
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
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. ~ George Eliot
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event — it is a habit. ~ Aristotle
There is always a best way of doing everything. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. ~ William Hazlitt
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. ~ Aristotle
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. ~ Flannery O’Connor
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. ~ Booker T. Washington
Don’t waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence— doing your best. ~ Sir Lawrence Olivier
Let each day be your masterpiece. ~ Author Unknown
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. ~ Syrus
The foundation of excellence lies in self-control. ~ H.L. Baugher
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves. ~ John Selden
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ~ Thomas J. Watson
The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish. ~ Max L. Lucado
To excel is to live. ~ Pierre Jean de Beranger
He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations. ~ Jean de la Bruyere
Excellence is never an accident. ~ Jerold Panas
There is no finish line. ~ Nike Corporation
We must do the best we can with what we have. ~ Edward Rowland Sill
The noblest search is the search for excellence. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The variation of excellence among men is rather in degree than in kind. ~ George Bancroft
Excellent people are honored wherever they go. ~Tibetan Proverb
The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality. ~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence. ~ Anthony Hecht
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ~ Epictetus
Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it. ~ William M. Thackeray
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. ~ Author Unknown
When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles? ~ Saadi
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. ~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. ~ John W. Gardner
Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence. ~ John Milton
I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. ~ Katherine Mansfield
There’s a way to do better… find it. ~ Thomas A. Edison
Good enough never is. ~ Debbi Field
Excellence, is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. ~ Sir Joshua Reynolds
A man that is desirous to excel should endeavor it in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ~ Epictetus
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. ~ Oscar Wilde
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. ~ Anita Roddick
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time. ~ William Hazlitt
The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them. ~ Lao-Tzu
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. ~ Pat Riley
We become so used to disguising ourselves to others, that we end up becoming disguised to ourselves. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. ~ Aristotle
Whatever you do, don’t do it halfway. ~ Bob Beamon
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. ~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. ~ Alice Walker
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence, only in constant improvement and constant change. ~ Thomas J. Peters
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. ~ Shana Alexander
Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
The only way to excellence is to consistently improve yourself every single day. ~ Thomas J. Vilord
There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties. ~ Ovid
Excellence is best described as doing the right things right, selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly. ~ Author Unknown
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