Excellence Quotes - Page 6

• If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

  Robert Townsend

  Fun, Excellent, Profitable Business

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

  Euripides

  Mean, Consent, Humans

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Fighting, Excellent, Mediocre

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

  Lowell Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  56 Copy quote

• 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

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Excellent

  7 Copy quote

• We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Positive, Success, Business

  20 Copy quote

• But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

  Lactantius

  Perfect, Mind, Eternal

  Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.23, Jazzybee Verlag

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Destiny, Play, Acting

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

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

  357 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Perfection, Essentials, Details

  88 Copy quote

• The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

  Aristotle

  Spiritual, Exercise, Men

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• As you progress towards enlightenment you will find that you become a winner at anything, not because you are so concerned about winning anymore. You are just concerned about the pursuit of excellence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Winning

  7 Copy quote

• Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Thinking, Mind, Three

  12 Copy quote

• Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Eye, Mediocrity

  11 Copy quote

• Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Men, Hands, Mind

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (2009). “Seven Discourses on Art”, p.36, The Floating Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

  Protagoras

  Cities, Advice, Accepting

  "Protagoras". Book by Plato, Oxford University Press, p. 19, 2002.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

  Sallust

  Fleeting, Riches, Splendid

  Sallust (1921). “Sallust”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

  Paul Tsongas

  Memorial Day, Compassion, America

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  Focus, Rumor, Trying

  7 Copy quote

• Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

  Hesiod

  Sports, Lying, Sweat

  32 Copy quote

• Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

  Herman Melville

  Children, Patriotic, Land

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Running, Horse, Giving

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.189, Thomas Nelson Inc

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Style, Substance, Jargon

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.108, Transaction Publishers

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

  Lloyd Grossman

  Dark, Moon, Sides

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

  10 Copy quote

  Show source