Quotes for Excellence

I demand excellence from the people I work with.

Ricky Schroder

Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.

Zubin Mehta

Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.

Kevin McCloud

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The best way for me to help with my life principals of transparency, democratization, excellence and modernity. I think it has to be like that in every area.

Tite

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Oprah Winfrey

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

Claire Bloom

The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America.

Theresa Rebeck

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.

John C. Calhoun

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

Debi Thomas

I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.

Yu Chui Yee

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.

David Halberstam

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

William Hazlitt

When I brought home a 98 percent on a test, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then bring them back.' My father and Nigerian culture has always stood for excellence.

Jidenna

Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.

Jason Witten

I became to myself an imaginary figure of great excellence, daring and glamor.

Rudolph Valentino

You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.

Kevin McCloud

Demand excellence.

Emmitt Smith