Best Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.”
– Barack Obama

“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“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

“To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.”
– Sun Tzu

“Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.”
– Janet Jackson

“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.”
– Charles Kendall Adams

“Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.”
– George Eliot

“Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.”
– Mitt Romney

“Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.”
– Edwin Louis Cole

“What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman’s excellence?”
– Sophocles

“The companies that survive longest are the one’s that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.”
– Charles Handy

“I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.”
– Nina Simone

“Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.”
– John W. Gardner

“What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.”
– Richard M. Nixon

“I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson

“The noblest search is the search for excellence.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson

“Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.”
– Aeschylus

“All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.”
– Samuel Richardson

“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.”
– Mario Andretti

“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
– John W. Gardner

“Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.”
– Allen West

“When we talk about Oscars, it’s almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like ‘The Artist‘ that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?”
– Harvey Weinstein

“When we talk about Oscars, it’s almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.”
– Harvey Weinstein

“Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.”
– Tom Peters

“When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.”
– Jean de la Bruyere

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
– Pearl S. Buck

“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.”
– Denis Diderot

“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”
– Thomas Aquinas

“The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.”
– David Ogilvy

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