Famous Quotes & Sayings

Humphrey Bogart

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Jacques Barzun

Everybody keeps calling for Excellence excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: "Elitism!" And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down. "Standing out" is undemocratic.

Oprah Winfrey

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

Kenny Marchant

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

Nicholas Sparks

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

Ovid

There is no excellency without difficulty.

Mehmet Oz

I have become convinced that the most overlooked tool in our medical arsenal is harnessing the body's own ability to heal through nutritional excellence.

Marianne Williamson

We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.

Frank Ocean

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Epictetus

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

Helen Thomas

You're only as good as your last story.

Orison Swett Marden

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Orison Swett Marden

Superiority - doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Melody Beattie

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.

Benjamin Franklin

The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue

Joe Rogan

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

Eric Thomas

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

Eric Thomas

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

John W. Gardner

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

John Piper

Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.

Seth Godin

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

Seth Godin

Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

Socrates

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

Marcus Buckingham

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

Kimora Lee Simmons

You should aspire to a level of personal excellence - to be the best you can be. You should aspire to have the richest life you can get in terms of fulfillment, happiness and peace.

Eric Hoffer

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

Henry Fuseli

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

Plato

Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

Plato

Excellent things are rare.

John Wilmot

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