Excellence quotations

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◆ To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

- Criss Jami99

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

- Booker T. Washington99

◆ People simply feel better about themselves when they're good at something.

- Stephen R. Covey99

◆ I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

- Adriana Trigiani99

◆ As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

- Voltaire99

◆ Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence

- Vince Lombardi99

◆ We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.

- Steve Jobs99

◆ These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

- Aristotle99

◆ There are many people, particularly in sports, who think that success and excellence are the same thing. They are not the same thing. Excellence is something that is lasting and dependable and largely within a person's control. In contrast, success is perishable and is often outside our control. If you strive for excellence, you will probably be successful eventually. People who put excellence in the first place have the patience to end up with success. An additional burden for the victim of the success mentality is that he is threatened by the success of others and he resents real excellence. In contrast, the person that is fascinated by quality is excited when he sees it in others.

- Joe Paterno99

◆ The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million change.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

◆ I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

- Gordon B. Hinckley99

◆ Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

- Bohdi Sanders99

◆ 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.

- Aristotle99

◆ In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

- Criss Jami99