Quotes & Sayings About Achieving Excellence

For a moment, I was captivated as I studied them side by side. My mother: the perfect picture of guardian excellence and decorum. My father: always capable of achieving his goals, no matter how twisted the means. Uneasily, I began to understand how I'd inherited my bizarre personality. — Richelle Mead

Arete is simply excellence and the striving for excellence in all things," said Odysseus. "Arete simply means the act of offering all actions as a sort of sacrament to excellence, of devoting one's life to finding excellence, identifying it when it offers itself, and achieving it in your own life. — Dan Simmons

If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations. — Richie Norton

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc. — Dennis Brown

Running a marathon with a backpack is tough and may hinder you from winning the race. Don't let the baggage from your past - heavy with fear, guilt, and anger - slow you down. — Maddy Malhotra

It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. — Arthur Bremer

Encouragement fuels great strength and great achievement. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Achieving excellence is being passionate about what you're doing and working so hard that they have to hire two people to replace you. — Charlie Trotter

The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life. — Pankaj Patel

Members of the Coyote Clan are not easily identified, but there are clues. You can see it in their eyes. They are joyful and they are fierce. They can cry louder and laugh harder than anyone on the planet. And they have an enormous range.
The Coyote Clan is a raucous bunch: they have drunk from desert potholes and belched forth toads. They tell stories with such virtuosity that you'll swear you've been in the presence of preachers.
The Coyote Clan is also serene. They can float on their backs down the length of any river or lose entire afternoons to the contemplation of stone.
Members of the Clan court risk and will dance on slickrock as flash floods erode the ground beneath their feet. It doesn't matter. They understand the earth re-creates itself day after day. — Terry Tempest Williams

You can do nothing you put your heart into it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm terribly shallow. I don't miss things once I have stopped doing them, and I don't miss people when I stop seeing them. — Terry Wogan

Conceive, believe and achieve. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity. — Buck Rodgers

You must have goals for your life. Do not fear take a bold step to realize your goals. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If Satan can't keep you away from Christ, he will at least try to make you doubt your salvation. — Billy Graham

The backcountry signs say stuff like BEYOND THIS POINT IS A HIGH RISK AREA, WHICH HAS MANY HAZARDS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, AVALANCHES, CLIFFS, AND HIDDEN OBSTACLES, YOU MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COST OF YOUR RESCUE and I think, um, no thanks. I choose life. — Cynthia Hand

I am awful. I am heartless. I am scared that these things are actually true. — John Green

Understanding state is the key to understanding change and achieving excellence. Our behavior is the result of the state we're in. — Anthony Robbins

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment. — Price Pritchett

Look Fabian, the world is full of sheep, don't settle for being a sheep, even if you do reside over those creatures, act more like a Ram. — T.A. Uner

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. — Andy Grove

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not. — Oscar Wilde

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. — George Orwell

Her take is that I'm just a late bloomer - that I'm taking forever to ruin my life, she's running out of patience. — Rainbow Rowell