Excellence Quotes

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. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

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

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.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

We fully intend to take it to new levels of excellence.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

I tell my guys, 'Excellence is a never ending thing.' I tell them to never be satisfied.

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

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

The excellence is in the details.

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

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Judicial excellence involves candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power, so we want to know how he or she will exercise this power and how they see the world. And we need and deserve to know what is in your mind and in your heart.

We're looking for A and B students who are highly motivated and whose parents see the wisdom of academic excellence.

Hey, let me tell you I worked years to achieve artistic excellence, ... and then all of a sudden, I get involved in this stupid, crazy, insane cartoon and now I'm hotter than I've ever been. I love it. I love it.

The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

Excellence is an expensive proposition. This year's tuition increase reflects our commitment to providing an excellent educational experience for students.

Base Envy withers at another's joy,/ And hates that excellence it cannot reach.