Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

Bryce Harper

I expect perfection from myself.

Carolina Herrera

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

Jane Austen

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

Jascha Heifetz

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Alan Chadwick

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Cheryl Richardson

I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.

Charles Lamb

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Edmund Burke

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

Kevin Wilson

We want excellence in every area. We don't want excuses.

Charles de Gaulle

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.

Chanakya

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

Bruce Schneier

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

Brian Tracy

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Brian Tracy

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

Bill O'Reilly

It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

Bill Gates

Hey, size works against excellence.

William Shakespeare

Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

Cesare Lombroso

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Charles Lamb

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

Brandon Lee

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Blaise Pascal

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Eddie McGuire

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,

Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.

Baltasar Gracian

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

Boris Pasternak

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

Bruce Henderson

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.