Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Clinton

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

Will Eisner

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

Saint Francis de Sales

The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished.

Richard Hofstadter

Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid, but rather as a complement to them without which they cannot be fully consummated.

Roger Ebert

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Voltaire

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Warren Buffett

Intensity is the price of excellence.

Samuel Richardson

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always a best way of doing everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Shreya Ghoshal

If you strive for excellence, success will follow

Samuel Johnson

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.

Samuel Johnson

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Ronald Reagan

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Sallust

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

Thornton Wilder

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

Thornton Wilder

All excellence is equally difficult.

Rumi

We must die to become true human beings.

Tom Peters

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

Tom Peters

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

Tom Peters

How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!

Tom Peters

If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

Tom Peters

Do it, fix it, try it.

Tom Peters

A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Tom Peters

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

T. D. Jakes

The standard is the standard and whomever walks in the door at the time I need a person in that position who can do that job with excellence and who understands my vision, if they can fulfill it, they got the job whether they're young, old, black, white, male or female.

T. D. Jakes

Excellence requires discomfort.

Tyler Cowen

Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

Steve Jobs

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

Rush Limbaugh

I thought it was excellent, to tell you the truth.