Best 1930 quotes in «excellence quotes» category

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

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

The pursuit of excellence is a continuous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe we're not pawns, we're not victims on this planet, that knows we have the power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

There is no excellence in archery without great labour.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.

There is only one boss. The customer.

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

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

There should be an expanded role in this society for every human being. I see an expanded role for the human spirit, for excellence, for virtue, and for creativity - within women, and within everyone.

The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a great influence upon the neighboring sciences, pure and applied, and on this ground physical chemistry may be regarded as an excellent school of exact reasoning for all students of the natural sciences.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may rise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens; and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.