Quotes about Excellence

Certainly when you're surrounded by top-class players, like Cesc Fabregas, Eden Hazard, all of them, you only can make progress in a situation like that.

The ministry is another kind of business than too many excellent preachers take it to be.

In fact, I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it… Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

In the best establishments, promises are always kept, whatever it may cost in agony and overtime.

There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.