As Aristotle said, ‘Excellence is a habit.’ I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He...

When God calls you to build 100 castles on earth and you built 98, take the 99th as if it’s the begining of your work and work hard to finish the race with all excellence....

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we’re always living on somebody’s dunghill.

The present and the future belong to believers and practitioners of excellence; not the “dinosaurs.

Excellence must be achieved through the eyes of those who judge us; once achieved it can only be maintained with constant innovation.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

Attraction and distraction are the two stumbling blocks that are essentially met en route in life’s journey towards excellence.

Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter.

The accumulation of beliefs, knowledge and experiences contribute to our level of success and progress in life, however they also introduce the reality that we are all prejudiced. If not well managed, our personal prejudices...

What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to be fulfilled by your own success?

Never fool yourself, success will not come by accident – it must be deliberately planned for. If opportunities don’t come on their own, they too must be created or attracted.

Certes le dirigeant doit miser sur des leviers du succès et de l’excellence, mais son action trouvera des limites dans la volonté et les stratégies des individus à ne pas coopérer, à plutôt miser sur...

Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.

The worst to ever happen to a person who aims at the sky is to fall on the tallest mountain; the best that can happen to a person who aims at the ceiling of his...

Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease.

Judicial excellence involves candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power, so we want to know how he or she will exercise this power and how they see the world....

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

Be a reflection of excellence.

Bathing is not negotiable! So is brushing your teeth and washing your underwear, so that you always have a fresh inviting scent around you. People should want to be around you, not avoid you because...

Behaviours and habits are therefore the end result of the entire value chain and cannot be changed in a sustainable manner by scratching the surface – you have to dig deeper. This is why jail...

There remains unique questions calling for a unique mission like yours to answer – and that is your key to significance. Find them and be the answer.

You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose.

What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success.

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

It’s excellence in leadership when everyone wants to manufacture a black shoe and you manufacture a designer black shoe with gold medal on top. Do something new; do something better!

It is this type of leadership that promotes academic excellence in the public schools of Alabama.

The best posture you can adopt when pursuing your goals is neither to stand nor sit. The best position is to STANDOUT! Everyone may be sitting; but don’t sit! Many people may be standing; but...

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.

Leadership is bringing people into new realms of excellence and challenging them to become distinguished in their chosen field.

well-functioning markets have no innate tendency to promote excellence in any form. They offer no resistance to forces making for a descent into cultural barbarity or moral depravity.

The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it’s a struggle. I...

What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

You first compete with yourself before competing against others; if you cannot beat your last best result, do not be surprised if it seems difficult to compete against external competitors.

The challenge therefore, as you strive for success, is to make it a habit to live your life on purpose. You must learn to make deliberate plans and then practice the art and science of...

It will take faith, to know success can still be attained regardless of unfairness or disadvantages availed by any system you operate within.

Personal growth by tackling the ‘big-picture” through focusing on the things you have power to influence is more effective and less stressful.

Most of the things to guarantee your death have already been done so you can spend the rest of your time focusing on the things that can guarantee your success and happiness.

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don’t allow them to define...

Many a time, we live life without having access to the thoughts of how the hours of yesterday were spent. This comes to play because of lack of self-analysis and does not help in any...

When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you’re just never quite good enough.

has fostered a program that pursues excellence on and off the field. Actually, let me amend that: It pursues excellence on the field and pursues the best legal representation money can buy off the field.

We must cooperate to turn this country around; otherwise there will be no more future to speak of for our children.

We fully intend to take it to new levels of excellence,

Supreme excellence in warfare consists of subduing the enemy without fighting.

Don’t let the fact you haven’t done something before convince you that you can’t do it, or that it cannot be done perfectly the first time you try your hand at it.

Don’t do things or act out your posture and gestures to impress people, just be yourself and portray the confident ‘you’ with that high self-esteem. So relax because you are ‘you’. Be sincere, be authentic....