With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
Aristotle
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
John F. Kennedy
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
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Publilius Syrus
There is no substitute for excellence - not even success.
Thomas Boswell
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck
Strive for excellence, not perfection.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
Jane Austen
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Marva Collins
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.
A scholar is the favorite of Heaven and of earth; The excellence of one's country, The happiest of mankind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John W. Gardner
Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
Ted W. Engstrom
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexander
If 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 Armstrong
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Sir Winston Churchill
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Thomas J. Peters
I feel very confident about what we can get done here, ... They already have an established tradition and a winning attitude. ... I want to continue the commitment to excellence.
Bill Walton
Auburn has been a pretty good feeder for swimming excellence.
Chris Plonsky
We set a standard of design excellence that is the most sophisticated stadium that has ever been built.
Michael Bidwill
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner
(Parents Matthew and Cyndy) have always encouraged me to pursue every aspect of my life with excellence.
Riley Booker
We strive for excellence, and we empower women. We consider ourselves the ladies on campus.
Michelle Clark
When we find a problem, we have service excellence teams that work through them.
Patrick Kane
Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education.
William Bowen
Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.
Patch Adams
Our immigrants are very educated. All of them have college education, and they are used to studying everything thoroughly and attain excellence in everything they do.
Lyobov Mikityansky
We must have excellence, but we must also have accessibility to that excellence.
Charles Vest
Eighteen years of excellence has earned Greenspan the benefit of the doubt when blame is being allocated.
Carl Tannenbaum
It's a tradition of excellence at Laurens.
Chris Calhoun
But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.
Dave Heineman
We are honored to be recognized for excellence in the area of public awareness.
Frank Roberts
Once you come to Texas, you automatically get that feeling that you're striving for excellence.
Daniel Gibson
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
James Bryant Conant
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
Protagoras
Lebanon is the true land of consensus par excellence.
Samir Geagea
I was hoping he would at least win an award of excellence.
Barbara Cawley
I tell my guys, 'Excellence is a never ending thing.' I tell them to never be satisfied.
Kenny Dupont
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
Vince Lombardi
We are delighted the government has made a bold investment in the talent and excellence of Canadian artists.
Karen Kain
I wish him well. Now he can continue to pursue his dream of excellence in education.
Eugene Peterson
There are pockets of excellence, but we really don't have a vendor that has all of it.
Elana Anderson
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