150 INSPIRING Quotes about EXCELLENCE and PERFECTION

Excellence is a high quality, that delivers success and achievement.

– Mark F. LaMoure –

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

– Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom –

Excellence is a shortcut to genius.

– Matshona Dhliwayo –

Excellence is a talent or quality which surpasses ordinary standards.

– Dr Anil Kumar Sinha – 

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It’s okay if there are flaws in the process – it makes it more interesting.

– Charlie Trotter –

Excellence is always the target of champions.

– Mark F. LaMoure –

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.

– Will Durant –

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level, over and over again.

– Jay Z –

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

– John W. Gardner – 

Excellence is going the extra mile.

–Joyce Meyer – 

Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.

– Perry Paxton – 

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

– Aristotle – 

Excellence is not a destination; it’s a continuous journey that never ends.

– Unknown –

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

– Plato – 

Excellence is not a single act. You are what you repeatedly do.

– LeToya Luckett – 

Excellence is not a skill, it’s an attitude.

– Ralph Marston – 

Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude.

– Colin Powell – 

Excellence is perseverance in the presence of obstacles.

– Unknown –

Excellence is pursuing and doing the best we can with the gifts and abilities God gives is.

– Unknown –

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – 

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

– Pat Riley –

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.

– Ronnie Oldham –

Excellence is the rocket that carries you to the stratosphere of success.

– Mark LaMoure –

Excellence is the target of champions and winners.

– Mark F. LaMoure – 

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

– Rick Pitino – 

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

– Booker T. Washington –

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

– Jose Ortega y Gasset – 

Excellence requires discomfort.

– T. D. Jakes –

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.

– Tom Peters – 

He who does it first may do well, but he who does it best will do better.

– Scott Allen –

He who sows excellence harvests success.

– Matshona Dhliwayo –

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

– Henry Ward Beecher –

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.

– Michael J. Fox –

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

– Lyndon B. Johnson –

I had spent many years pursuing excellence because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

– Nina Simone – 

I think I always just want to get better at whatever I’m doing… Always strive for excellence.

– Carl Hagelin –

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.

– Oprah Winfrey – 

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

–  Vince Lombard – 

I’ve always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

– Sumner Redstone – 

If instead of completely focusing on what you are doing, you are racing ahead to something shinier or to the next best thing, you will not develop excellence.

– Mark Goulston –

If we would be important to others, let it be through the excellence of our talents rather than through our position.

–  Edwin Mamerto –

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

– Colin Powell –

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

– Napoleon Hill –

If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you’ve got coming.

– Robert Forster –

If you don’t value excellence, you won’t achieve excellence.

– Unknown –

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

– William Pollard –

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

– Thomas J. Watson –

If you want to soar high in life, you have to give up the things and people that weigh you down.

– Rashida Rowe –

If you’re holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.

– Robert Forster –

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

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow –

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

– Robert Kennedy –

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

– Brad Henry –

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

– Seneca – 

It takes time to create excellence.  If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

– John Wooden –

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca –

Light the candle of success with the flame of excellence.

– Matshona Dhliwayo – 

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

– Joe Paterno –

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

– Edwin Louis Cole – 

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

– Aristotle – 

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

– John Kluge – 

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

– William Makepeace Thackeray –

Once you have experienced excellence you will never again be content with mediocrity.

– Thomas S. Monson –

Paint a masterpiece daily. Always autograph your work with excellence.

– Greg Hickman –

People of excellence go the extra mile to do what’s right.

– Joel Osteen – 

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

– Jerry Moran –

Perfection when given wings of determination, dedication and discipline, results into excellence.

– Anil Sinha –

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

– Paul Meyer – 

Pursue excellence and success will follow.

– Rancho – 

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow –

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

– John W. Gardner –

Stay focused on your mission, remain steadfast in your pursuit of excellence, and always do the right thing.

– Mark Esper –

Striving for excellence motivates you.

– Harriet Braiker –

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

– Harriet Braike –

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

– Orison Swett Marden – 

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

– Sun Tzu –

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton –

The elimination of foolishness and stupidity is the beginning of excellence.

– Unknown –

The excellence is in the details.

– Gregory L. Sullivan –

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

– Charles Dudley Warner –

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

– John Keats –

The extent of your impact on the world depends on the size of your devotion to excellence. – Robin Sharma –

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self-esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

– Brian Tracy –

The garden of your dreams is watered by the springs of excellence.

– Matshona Dhliwayo –

The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.