Best Quotes And Sayings

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Here is a collection of best quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”
– Confucius

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
– Steve Jobs

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“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

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
– Ralph Marston

“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.”
– Mario Andretti

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
– Sun Tzu

“To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
– Sun Tzu

“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.”
– John W. Gardner

“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”
– Paul J. Meyer

“Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.”
– William Makepeace Thackeray

“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

“Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.”
– Joe Paterno

“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

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
– Aristotle

“When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.”
– Joe Paterno

“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.”
– Bertrand Russell

“Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”
– Aristotle

“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”
– Aristotle

“The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.”
– Charles R. Swindoll

“A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.”
– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington

“We often choose a friend as we do a mistress – for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.”
– William Hazlitt

“By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.”
– Voltaire

“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”
– Pat Riley

“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God‘s business.”
– Michael J. Fox

“Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.”
– Hesiod

“Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”
– Oprah Winfrey

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