Best 1930 quotes in «excellence quotes» category

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers.

Passion for a goal doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you can't even begin.

Patience is also a form of action.

Perfection is not a destination; it's a never-ending process...Enjoy!

People in theatre work harder than anyone in the world - as far as I'm concerned - as far as sheer output of energy and the rigor and excellence that they maintain doing something every day, or twice a day.

People think I'm into positive thinking. I'm not a positive thinking guy. I'm into the truth. I'm a hunter of human excellence.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Perfection is the child of time.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

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

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact, there was never such a year. The language of Chaucer's or Shakespeare's time was no better and no worse than that of our own - just different.

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

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

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

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.

Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!

Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.