Excellence Quotes

"Happiness is the exercise of one's vital abilities along lines of excellence in a life that affords them scope"

"We're just trying to replicate excellence."

"When we find a problem, we have service excellence teams that work through them."

"To keep people in place and ask them for excellence, we have to pay them accordingly."

"Now he realizes in order to maintain some of that excellence that he has, he has to work at it. Really the past couple of years he's worked at his game, and he reaped the benefits last year with those numbers he put up on the board."

"We've got some challenges, but I think we've got the capability to be a North Carolina School of Excellence, ... I don't know how long that will take, but it can be done."

"The Adidas brand is recognized for excellence in sports heritage and performance on a global basis. NBA and Adidas branded apparel and footwear will be available to even more fans around the world continuing our effort to expand the league's accessibility to anywhere fans can dribble a ball or watch a basketball game."

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."

"This certification demonstrates what we believe to be true about our customer service. PEMCO is all about excellence in our relationships and service. The survey results give us a good benchmark, and that helps create new opportunities for us to enhance our customer service and become even better."

"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."

"Judicial excellence involves candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power, so we want to know how he or she will exercise this power and how they see the world. And we need and deserve to know what is in your mind and in your heart."

"Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning"

"We want to introduce something with excellence and intelligence to people that have never seen a violin before. Maybe even inspire one kid."

"The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment."

"It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame."

"The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other."

"Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened."

"Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way."

"Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them."

"One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement."