Best 1930 quotes in «excellence quotes» category

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd 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.

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

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.

To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms, but standing inexplicable and irrational, is hardly a justifiable position. Uniformities are precisely the sort of facts that need to be accounted for. Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

We all love to see excellence as a fan, and I am a fan now watching excellence in the Rangers net.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.

We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and [military superpower] of the planet. That's just not going to happen. We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the [France] of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

We usually get what we anticipate.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

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.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.