Best Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I’d like to be known as ‘The Big Aristotle’ because Aristotle once said, ‘Excellence is not a singular act; it’s a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.’”
– Shaquille O’Neal

“Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that’s been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.”
– Michael Haneke

“Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.”
– Rick Pitino

“Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises… the best excellence in the children of any other land.”
– Herman Melville

“The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.”
– John W. Gardner

“Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one – in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.”
– Walter Bagehot

“Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.”
– Tom Peters

“Don’t strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.”
– Victoria Principal

“Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.”
– Jose Ortega y Gasset

“There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.”
– Oliver Goldsmith

“A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.”
– Michelle Malkin

“Excellence always sells.”
– Earl Nightingale

“America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.”
– Paul Tsongas

“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.”
– Charles Dudley Warner

“I’ve zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence… Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.”
– LeRoy Neiman

“It’s a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence – the best in man. My subject is very valid. It’s about people, and about life.”
– LeRoy Neiman

“Yet Aristotle’s excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.”
– Irving Babbitt

“Demand excellence.”
– Emmitt Smith

“Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.”
– Michael N. Castle

“But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.”
– Lactantius

“The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK – firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.”
– John Hutton

“I work hard and I have a standard of excellence – and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there’s a strong team helping me. I believe we’re going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.”
– Ken Salazar

“Find something that you’re really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.”
– Chris Evert

“You’ve just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.”
– James Daly

“Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.”
– John W. Gardner

“There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.”
– Philip James Bailey

“I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.”
– Edsger Dijkstra

“As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.”
– Alex Campbell

“It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.”
– Brad Henry

“Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.”
– Walter Pater

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