Best 1930 quotes in «excellence quotes» category

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

Nutritional excellence is the only real fountain of youth.

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

Of course, we need not be surprised if artistic excellence goes unrecognized on account of being unknown; but there should be the greatest indignation when, as often, good judges are flattered by the charm of social entertainments into an approbation which is a mere a pretence.

Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.

Once you understand what excellence is all about... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline.

One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man's reason can a movement succeed.

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.

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.

Only a few people have the background of Nick Saviano to take a player to the next level of excellence

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education.

Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

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.

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

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.

Patience is also a form of action.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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

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 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.

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

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.

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.