Excellence Quotes - Page 36

• Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Unforgettable, Excellent, Nobody Knows

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• Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.

  Earl Nightingale

  Children, Growing Up, Spring

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• Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful.

  Richard Tyler

  Determination, Commitment, Matter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Heart, Years, Creating

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Ideas, Risk

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• What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?

  Alexi Murdoch

  Block, Gestation Period, Creative

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• If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

  Tom Peters

  What If, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Tom Peters from May 19, 2013

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• New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, New Orleans, Jazz

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• Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

  Theodore Martin

  Art, Work, Believe

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• Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

  Brian Tracy

  Each Day, Strive, Achieve

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• The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

  William C. Brown

  Italian, Media, Stupidity

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• 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

  Children, School, Phones

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• Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.

  William Shakespeare

  Issues, Use, Spirit

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1845, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of credit by which a nation-wide usury rises like a Golem (a created monster) with a million hands on a million throats, to choke the honor and the freedom-of-movement of a hard-working people.

  Samuel Roth

  Hard Work, Hands, People

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• 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

  Strong, Team, Believe

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• We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Giving, Lord, Should

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• Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

  Debi Thomas

  Strong, Belief, Olympian

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• Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

  Criss Jami

  Patience, Passion, Persistence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.100, Criss Jami

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• As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.

  Criss Jami

  Feelings, Relaxation, Want

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.130, Criss Jami

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• We usually get what we anticipate.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Anticipation, Anticipate

  Claude M. Bristol (2013). “The Magic of Believing”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Criss Jami

  Bullying, Land, Weakness

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

  John Brunner

  Mind, Different, Literature

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• The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Ideas, Black, Taught

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• You have excellence on the inside. It’s who you are. Now do your part. Bring out your excellence!

  Joel Osteen

  Who You Are

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• We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.

  Mike Curb

  Team, Knowing, Groups

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