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Excellence Quotes:

Quotation Colin Powell If you are going to achieve excellence in big things Quotes

Quotation Nick Saban Success doesn t come from pie in the sky thinking Quotes

Quotation Steve Jobs Be a yardstick of quality Some people aren t used Quotes

Quotation Tom Landry The quality of a man s life is in direct Quotes

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

- Amy Chua

source: Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Practice, America, Excellence

I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fresh sounds.

- Anthony Evans

source: "A conversation with recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Evans". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Song, Writing, Excellence

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

- Anthony Hecht

source: Anthony Hecht (2012). “Collected Earlier Poems”, p.72, Knopf

topic: Excellence, Mediocrity

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

- Arlene Croce

source: Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.129, Macmillan

topic: Excellence, Genius, Alive

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

- Bill Gross

source: "Bill Gross reportedly earns $290m bonus even as investors withdrew billions from Pimco funds" by Heidi Moore, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2014.

topic: Years, Track, Excellence, Track Record

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

- Charles Sumner

source: Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.517, Library of Alexandria

topic: Flower, Excellence, Progress, Moral Excellence

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

- Dan Miller

source: Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.86, B&H Publishing Group

topic: Procrastination, Excellence, Desire, Perfectionism

Set out to do three or four things this year with gusto and excellence, rather than doing a dozen things just sufficiently. Trust me on this.

- Danielle LaPorte

source: Danielle LaPorte (2014). “The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul”, p.206, Sounds True

topic: Years, Excellence, Three, Gusto

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

- David Oyelowo

source: "David Oyelowo creates a tortured soul in HBO's 'Nightingale'". Interview with Lynn Elber, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. May 28, 2015.

topic: Excellence, Prejudice, Weapons

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

- David Starr Jordan

source: "The Voice of the Scholar". Book by David Starr Jordan, 1903.

topic: Real, Excellence, World

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

- Euripides

source: Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.228, University of Chicago Press

topic: Success, Men, Excellence

Excellence has no sex.

- Eva Hesse

source: Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris

topic: Sex, Excellence

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

- Francis Turner Palgrave

source: Francis Turner Palgrave (1861). “The Golden treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language”, p.320

topic: Life, Mind, Excellence

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

- Georges Bernanos

source: Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.224, Da Capo Press

topic: Pride, Order, Excellence, Fine Things

Strictly excel in what is excellence with grace

- GZA

source: Song: Breaker, Breaker, Album: Beneath the Surface

topic: Grace, Excellence

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

- Harriet Martineau

source: Harriet Martineau (1838). “How to Observe: Morals and Manners”, p.85, Transaction Publishers

topic: Class, Excellence, Moral, Moral Excellence

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

source: "Harvey Weinstein On Hollywood's Heated Oscar Race". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.wbaa.org. December 2, 2011.

topic: Excellence, Oscars, Accepting, Goliath

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

- James Bryant Conant

source: James Bryant Conant (1942). “Our Fighting Faith: Five Addresses to College Students”, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

topic: Excellence, Aristocracy, Calling, Snobbery

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

- Jeremiah Burroughs

source: Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.15, Lulu.com

topic: Christian, Excellence, Contentment

The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.

- Jim Tressel

source: Jim Tressel (2010). “The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life”, p.100, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

topic: Greatness, Consistency, Excellence

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

- John Wilmot

source: John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.125, Taylor & Francis

topic: Excellence, Taste, Faults

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