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We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.
Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.
The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.
That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.
If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.
Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.
I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?
Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.
Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.
The Age of Aquarius is the age of excellence in which personal purity shall absolutely matter.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.
I think I always just want to get better at whatever Im doing... Always strive for excellence.
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
I think I always just want to get better at whatever I'm doing... Always strive for excellence.
Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.
I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.
Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.
I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
You have excellence on the inside. It’s who you are. Now do your part. Bring out your excellence!
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.
But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.
Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.