We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. . . Try to be better than yourself.
One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man's reason can a movement succeed.
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!
Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!
The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.
We all love to see excellence as a fan, and I am a fan now watching excellence in the Rangers net.
Excellence always sells.
Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
Go where no one's gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.
Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.
I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.
I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.
For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. '