Excellence

12 quotes.

• Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution.

  Aristotle

• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted.

  Martin Luther King Jr.

• An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

  Niels Bohr

• An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

• Excellence can be attained if you . . . * Care more than others think is wise * Risk more than others think is safe * Dream more than others think is pratical * Expect more than others think is possible.

  Anonymous

• How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence"

  Barbara J. Alexander

• There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.

  David Johnson

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant, summarising Aristotle

• Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

  Booker T. Washington

• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

  Attributed to John Ruskin

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