Excellence Quotes

Excellence quotes...messages to inspire excellence along your path personal development.

Quotes on Excellence To Inspire You To Reach For Your Best

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

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

--Booker T. Washington

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.

--Horace

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

--Harriet Braiker

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

--Ralph Marston

Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters

--Seneca

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

--John W. Gardner

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

--Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

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

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

--Joe Paterno

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

--Samuel Johnson

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

--Steve Jobs

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

--Mario Andretti

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

--James Bryant Conant

Excellence always sells.

--Earl Nightingale

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

--Warren G. Bennis

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

--José Ortega y Gasset

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

--Michael J. Fox

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.

--Greg LeMond

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

--Claire Bloom

I hope these quotes about excellence inspired you to reach for your best. ~Adam

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