Excellent Quotes (page 3)

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• beauty
• excellence
• common

Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art: It redeems the bad and perfects the good. Because nature commonly forsakes us at her best, take refuge in art. The best in nature is raw without art, and the excellent is lacking if it lacks culture. Without cultivation everyone is a clown and needs polish, fine attributes notwithstanding. Baltasar Gracian

• school
• contentment
• people

We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to... Francis Schaeffer

• best
• success
• money

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be. Mike Ditka

• excellence
• power
• knowledge is power

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. Alexander the Great

• excellence
• something
• teachings

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. Baltasar Gracian

• memories
• excellence
• memorial

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory. Bill Gates

• busy
• perfect
• caring

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. Michael J. Fox

• thinking
• excellence
• kindness

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free. Charles R. Swindoll

• excellence
• desiring
• mostly

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. Epictetus

• fashion
• perfect
• competition

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection. Edsger Dijkstra

• attitude
• achievement
• excellence

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Colin Powell

• excellence
• knowledge
• powerful

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. Plutarch

• art
• wellness
• excellence

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. Walter Pater

• future
• excellence
• want

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence. Dave Heineman

• work
• people
• excellence

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. William Hazlitt