The great difficulty is first to win a reputation the next to keep it while you live and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name.
Excellence Quotes (341 Quotes)
The road to excellence is always under construction
We feel that Bobby is the best manager in the game and his leadership has helped the Braves to set a very high standard of excellence -- not just in major league baseball, but in all of professional sports.
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead the one being an innate desire of pleasure the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
I have never been more excited and energized about a head coaching appointment in my career than I am with the hiring of Ben Jacobson as our men's basketball coach. Ben is ready to take this step. He has the support of the current team and our recruiting class and he will do a great job of maintaining the excellence that we have built in our men's basketball program.
He has a standard of excellence he wants to set the bar at. That's what drives the man. He has a way of envisioning his dream and he doesn't compromise what he wants that end result to be.
We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.
Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.
The role of the centre of excellence is simply to help Australia remain at the top of world cricket.
I have to be active. No, I'm not going to call the plays. But I'm going to go ahead and make sure that the right people do the right things. I think it's very important that the message is out that the person on the top is watching over them, making sure everything is done right. We're going to try to strive for excellence. I'll try to figure out what it will take for us to be the champs.
The Lord of the Universe is the Treasure of Excellence His limits cannot be found.
The commissioner mentioned the above vendors as some who were at New Orleans conference recently, ... He thought we might contact them via phone and see if they are interested in Excellence in Corrections conference.
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
This is a turning point for High Point University, ... Mr. Wilson's gift will enable us to fulfill many dreams and heighten our standards to new levels of excellence.
Airbus has made a substantial commitment within the United States, where we procure more than 46 percent of our aircraft parts and systems, and where we already have four other centers of excellence. This engineering center is further representation of that commitment.
We are extremely pleased with our home here and with the high quality of our associates who have helped build our success. For more than 67 years, Midland has sustained a tradition of excellence and has grown to become a leader in the specialty insurance marketplace over the last 40 years. We are excited to be starting a new chapter in our success, and we look forward to many more years of growth and stability.
Not for a million -- years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.
Sometimes we are so eager to embrace the status quo that we lose sight of fresh opportunities for excellence. I'm so impressed with the keen intelligence and common sense she brings to the issues.
Our goal is to teach our students the fine points of food preparation and the discerning art of wine selection. Our talented chefs are uniquely suited to this task, and we are confident that our tradition of excellence and passion for food will be evident in our classes.
It adds a little pressure. Coach expects the best, he expects excellence. That's what we work on every day. We're a unit, but we're just a part of the puzzle. We have to piece it all together to make everything run smooth.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
Competition can be viewed in two ways. It can be viewed in a negative light and be seen as destructive, but one can also have the view that it is competition that drives people and institutions to higher and higher levels of excellence and, therefore, to more and more opportunity.
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
He's taken over programs with tough luck and has a proven track record. He has the right energy level, he's focused and he demands excellence.
We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the economic superpower and military superpower of the planet. That's just not going to happen, ... We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the France of the 21st century a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.
I feel like I am being put on notice that the number of shows with artistic excellence is going to be far greater than when we started in 1989. And that means the festival has done its job.
He represents the American tradition of excellence and honesty and integrity. In a sense, he was the Steven Spielberg of his time.
The good news is that the BRAC process has now confirmed Anniston as the department's Center for Industrial and Technical Excellence. This means that Anniston's mission and work force have been affirmed and the depot remains poised to continue to enhance its workload and employees,
We expect that this new investment by Ford will take the Philippine automotive industry to its next level of development by establishing its leadership in the Flexible Fuel technology in the region. Flexible Fuel technology is part of Ford's global vision on innovation, and with this investment Ford intends to build the Philippines as its ASEAN Center of Excellence in Flexible Fuel Technology.
Howe'er in mirth most magnified,
Whoe'er lived in life most lordliest,
Drear all this excellence, delights undurable!
But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
Bert and his wife, Iris, have been extraordinarily committed to the development of soccer at all levels in northeast Ohio, and his passion for the game, his unflinching dedication to community service and his pursuit of excellence in all his endeavors both professionally and personally will never be forgotten.
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
This award is presented by the state. They make their choices based on both athletic and academic excellence.
Our annual customer retention rate is approximately 90 percent, and we believe our training program has a lot to do with such a high percentage. In our field, your performance is the only thing that matters to your client. Our program focuses on training our employees to become top-notch security officers while also preparing them for roles in management. In the long term, we train our officers because it is essential to servicing our clients, to retaining the best employees and to building a culture of excellence.
We strive for excellence, and we empower women. We consider ourselves the ladies on campus.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
Brown has a long standing tradition of excellence. They are a well-coached team and a national power. We are excited for another good test.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.
Gazing upon their families, people are lured and trapped by emotional attachment, but none will go along with them in the end. Serving the True Guru, one finds the Lord, the Treasure of Excellence.
Remember, remember, remember Him in meditation He is the treasure of excellence.
Eighteen years of excellence has earned Greenspan the benefit of the doubt when blame is being allocated.
Our standards have been on the cutting edge of service for two decades, ... With the JCAHO Gold Seal of Approval, our clients and employees are assured of our ongoing commitment to excellence.