Anon on Excellence
Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best.
Aristotle on Excellence
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Henry Ward Beecher on Excellence
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Hesiod on Excellence
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.
Mies van der Rohe on Excellence
God is in the details.
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire on Excellence
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.
Janet Erskine Stuart on Excellence
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.