Quotes about Excellence
What-e're thou art, Act well thy part.
- David O. McKay
No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.
- Cicero
A virtuous expediency, then, seems the highest desirable or attainable earthly excellence for the mass of men, and is the only earthly excellence that their Creator intended for them.
- Herman Melville
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
- Cicero
To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt...It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up - as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
- John Ortberg
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
- Seth Godin
Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.
- Seth Godin
If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
- Washington Allston
You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
- Wendell Berry
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.
- Matshona Dhliwayo