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A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.
I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.
My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.
Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.
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.
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.
the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.
You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.
Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.
Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.
The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.
Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.
We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.
An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty. [Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.]
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.
Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.
whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.
Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures.
It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion?
I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence