Quotes about excellence

Behave like the flower it blooms with its own petals without bothering to take the colour of another flower’s petals. You can excel with what you have!

The worst to ever happen to a person who aims at the sky is to fall on the tallest mountain the best that can happen to a person who aims at the ceiling of his room is to fall on the carpet of his floor!

Make it a promise to be all that you must be. When you dream of reaching the 100th step take the 99th as the beginning of your journey and you will go beyond the 101st!

Don’t embrace mediocrity its main charm is to make you fall in love with failure. Speed off… Excellence awaits you at the end of your journey!

Don’t be retarded excellence is “status quo discarded”. Look ahead and don’t see the little things you do now as the final products to ever stand out of your personal actions!

Never climb the tree with the reason of plucking a fruit only to get there and pick a leaf. Let everything you get there to do be done and let it be done well!

Passion gives power while attitude designs excellence! You can do it because you have the passion you can do it very well because you have the right attitude!

Dream big and dare to make it happen. You have a heavy power don’t misuse it carrying a paperweight load. Make it big!

We must cooperate to turn this country around otherwise there will be no more future to speak of for our children.

One of the greatest tools you cannot do without is the media. These various means for mass communication and those involved in them must be your partners and not your enemies you must not be afraid of them but befriend and love them. If you are going to be significant and relevant then you are going to need someone to help broadcast your voice and channel your substance to the world.

Be punctual it shows your respect for other people.

Do not be cursed by documented findings and so-called facts invention itself is not yet an antique for the museum. Not every voice has the right to sponsor your beliefs and words.

Understand you are neither inferior nor superior you are just the best of who you are supposed to be. You have set standards for yourself and are ready to meet them.

Better planning guarantees success ask anyone who has planned a one day event like a wedding. How much planning should you therefore put in the kind of life you want to succeed at?

The best pilots fly more than the others that's why they're the best.

Something good is a frontier something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier!

Excellence must be achieved through the eyes of those who judge us once achieved it can only be maintained with constant innovation.

Always give your best today's great work is tomorrow's benchmark.

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.

All people are standing you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds you got to breakthrough grounds! Don't settle for less rise up and stand tall in what you do!

Excellence is making a rubber shoe initially later making a leather shoe then later making a leather shoe with gold medal on top and then making a golden shoe with diamond medal on top going to make a real diamond shoe!

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

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

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn’t see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.

Excellent people are those, who choose to separate themselves from mediocrity.

Trademark yourself with the mark of excellence.

Excellence is a journey and a constant process. It is never a final destination. Have fun and enjoy it as a lifetime self-improvement program. Polish yourself for excellence. Glitter and sparkle for success.

An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection.

Entrepreneur, if your going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

Break out to go out___________________The birds dare to break the egg shellIt does so in order to get out of that HellWhen it finally succeeds, it’ll then flyTo its comfort zone it’ll say byeAre you being confined in a small spaceHow long will you remain at that place?Before you can explore more territories,Break away from the former glories.Yesterday’s excellence is today’s averageYou must strive to be better age after ageNever accept the available mediocrityAs the only preferable opportunityDe

You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your family marry to be still richer? People who know in what their main excellence consists are not to be blamed (are they?) for cultivating and improving what they think most valuable? Is true happiness any part of your family-view?—So far from it, that none of your family but yourself could be happy were they not rich. So let them fret on, grumble and grudge, and accumulate; and wondering what ails them

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

People may forget the quantity of your works but cannot forget the quality of your works.

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

But I'm not dead," Blue pointed out."BUT YOU ARE PRETTY SHORT.

Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.

Procrastination causes pressure that zaps creativity and excellence.

Excellence is not an event but a habit.

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect and that it does not love. It honors nature as a great mystery and power, as an indispensable teacher, and as the inescapable judge of all work of human hands. It does not dissociate life and work, or pleasure and work, or love and work, or usefulness and beauty. To work without pleasure or affection, to make a pr

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Pay attention to your goals and never let the euphoria of the early success convince you to brag about.

Your intelligence enhances your ability to think and recollect, dream and set realistic goals. Your stamina is built on your passion for progress and willingness to excel... When you have a great stamina, you can make great impact even with a low intelligent quotient!

There is no limit to life. The only limit is the limit you put into life.

Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.

To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.

Believe it or not, I'm stronger than any belief, stereotype, profile, or idea you have of me. I'm driven and self-made with a perception unique to my own. You'll hate that and say I'm not special. I'll allow you to believe it because deep down, you already know I am. My name's Charles Lee. Bound for greatness. Destined to soar.

Look Fabian, the world is full of sheep, don’t settle for being a sheep, even if you do reside over those creatures, act more like a Ram.

Perfection is the enemy of greatness. We as people are limited in the knowledge and information we have, so to say one has reached all of the highest standards of what is known as the conventional consummation of human excellence means there is nothing more they would have to learn. This of course, is impossible, for there are always new things to learn, and so perfection is unachievable and unattainable.

Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that will make us have developed society.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

Don't Settle for Mediocrity. Strive for Excellence

I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence.

You can always learn to do more than you can at any point in your life.

I won't compete with anybody. I love to compete with my own body. When God closes a door against me, I should not attempt to bang on it. And if God gives me a key to open a door, I should not misuse that key!

A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.

Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity.

Take distinct steps and exploits. Those who are distinct and distinguished always score distinction. Go there, be there and stay there.

We can never achieve and succeed without first making excellence second nature.

Pursuit of excellence is the desire for divine fulfilment.

Find what you're good at. whatever it is, and become excellent at it. Excellence isn't magic - it's habit, the by product of doing something over and over and striving to be the best at it. Simply figure out what your passion is, and resolve to make excellence your habit.

You have the ability to shine and make a mark in some field. Your job is to find your niche, excel and build a lasting legacy.

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard because anything worth having in this world will take me to the very edge of myself. I will overcome everything I have ever gone through and will make my future the one God intended me to have. I will pick up the pieces of this pain and sculpt it into art. I am not ordinary and never was. I walk into my birthright as a queen with her head held high. I was born to do this!

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.

People who achieve marvelously in critical challenges are commended than people who achieve same things on the silver platter.

When I was a young girl, I studied Greek in school. It's a beautiful language and ever so many good things were written in it. When you speak Greek, it feels like a little bird flapping its wings on your tongue as fast as it can. This is why I sometimes put Greek words into my stories, even though not so many people speak Ancient Greek anymore. Anything beautiful deserves to be shared round, and anything I love goes into my stories for safekeeping.The word I love is Arete. It has a simple meanin

I’m speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There’s powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

Sometimes we have to wait for years to seek a really exceptional thing. I always wanted to give you the best thing in the world but ...

Passion is the fuel for excellence. Rest, vacation or a payrise can't make you create excellence in your work. Findbwhat makes you passionate about what you do

We weren't born to create excuses, we were born to create excellence.

Believe be and strong enough in virtues like character, faithfulness, hard work, dignity of labor, diligence, excellence, perseverance, truth, responsibility, delayed gratification, contentment, trust, integrity and stop looking for miracles.

As a nation, we will only become the shining light to the world with the emergence of more and more role models worthy of emulation by all

The results you are churning out are a direct or indirect reflection of what you allowed into your life. Unlearning what you already know and practice is no easy task, but sometimes it’s necessary for the programming or re-programming that must take place for success to be made deliberate.

Study to acquire knowledge - not just to get a certificate or promotion. Acquisition of knowledge is key to the programming or reprogramming of your mind and expanding your frame of reference. Choose the areas of study in line with your vision and mission as well as your strengths and interests. Make sure you seek opportunities to practice and implement the new information and knowledge you gain from your study.

It is imperative that you grow, because your personal growth and development is one of the most important things to you. Your growth is good for you – it must be deliberate.

No matter how much I care for you, you have to do your own growing – it’s your personal responsibility. Muscles do not grow by reading but by lifting weights. Exam grades do not improve by wishing but by studying.

Connect by listening well and speaking relevantly without being prejudiced or sarcastic. Learn to listen with your eyes as much as you listen with your ears. Generate interest in the person and subject, that way people will become more interested in you.

Don’t do things or act out your posture and gestures to impress people, just be yourself and portray the confident ‘you’ with that high self-esteem. So relax because you are ‘you’. Be sincere, be authentic. That will be impressive enough.

Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter.

Don’t be intimidated and at the same time don’t intimidate.

Bathing is not negotiable! So is brushing your teeth and washing your underwear, so that you always have a fresh inviting scent around you. People should want to be around you, not avoid you because of unfriendly odours coming out of your mouth, shoes or armpits. Do the best with what you have; even the old can be made clean and hygienic to improve your image.

The trusted quality and power of the believed sponsor of your words will have a big impact on the power released in and through your words. You should have sufficient sponsorship to counter the kind of words you do not want to influence your life, thoughts and mission. Contrary words and convincing voices will encounter you on the route to your destiny and they need to be countered with strong conviction and authority.

Never underestimate the power of thought. It takes days and nights of pre-meditating ideas, thoughts, pictures and visions of what you would call success. Allow your mind to be pregnant with the thought of success and how you want to achieve it. This will enable you not to be shocked by your own success when you finally achieve it, because you would have lived it countless times before.