Quotes on Excellence

A great man leaves clean work behind him and requires no sweeper up of the chips.Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• excellence

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.Aristotle

• discipline
• habit
• excellence
• practice

Our deepest fear is NOT that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God: your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.Nelson Mandela

• excellence
• potential

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.Henry Kaiser

• work
• bragging
• excellence

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.William Somerset Maugham

• excellence
• mistakes
• perfection

The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.Vince Lombardi

• excellence

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.Alistair Cooke

• excellence

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.Vince Lombardi

• commitment
• excellence

All men are born free and equal - free at least in their right to be different. Some people want to homogenize society everywhere. I'm against the homogenizers in art, in politics, in every walk of life. I want the cream to rise.Robert Frost

• excellence
• diversity