Strive for excellence, not perfection.
- Abdur RahmanThe sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
- Shana AlexanderSports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
- Abdul SattarThe ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- John F. KennedyIn every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
- Jane AustenI am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God`s business.
- Michael J. FoxThe renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
- Adrian CooteI was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that`s how I operate my life.
- Oprah WinfreyIf 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 PowellThe secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
- Pearl S. BuckExcellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
- Rick PitinoIt`s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what`s required.
- Winston ChurchillExcellence 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.
- AristotleThose who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.
- Samuel JohnsonA superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
- ConfuciusNo man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation
- HoraceExcellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.
- Perry PaxtonIt takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
- Publilius SyrusExcellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
- Ralph MarstonTo fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy`s resistance without fighting.
- Sun TzuIf there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.
- T. Alan ArmstrongChampions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character
- T. Alan Armstrong